The Car Thread

[EpsomWolf]

That first image is sexy as hell. Can’t really judge a camo car and the auto car version is just a tragic dogs dinner.

Loving the long bonnet though tbh, at the very least that’d give loads of practical ‘boot’ space but would imagine it’ll be put to other use too. Besides, it’ll be a sad day when cars are only designed by automatons and driven by them, good to see designers still recognising they’re appreciated by some people as works of art too.

 

[The Bear]

It does apparently have a very long bonnet. Totally pointless in an EV

Room to store a couple more sets of golf clubs.

 

[Alan]

It’s out and about camouflaged doing real road testing, used to see a lot of camouflaged test cars around Machynlleth when lived out that way, Mach to Llanidloes on the mountain road was a favourite.
Auto car seem to think it’ll look like the second picture, which is awful compared to the image aboveView attachment 12234View attachment 12235

Trying way too hard to look like an RR Phantom, that

 

[Wolftone]

Can the Jag MD's name really be Raw Dong Lover?

 

[leedswolf]

BREAKING: Vauxhall will close its Luton plant in April, the parent company Stellantis announced

 

[Keef]

BREAKING: Vauxhall will close its Luton plant in April, the parent company Stellantis announced

All the usual on social media blaming labour and this is just the start of the economies destruction, no mention of Stellantis haemorrhaging money and sales, and moving the production to Ellesmere Port, does pretty much kill Luton off though with all the associated jobs that’ll go as well

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Luton's biggest employer is probably the airport.

 

[leedswolf]

Luton's biggest employer is probably the airport.

If you take into account the flight operators and support services then collectively you're probably right. Councils and hospitals are usually large employers too.

 

[Tredman]

Our French HQ is undergoing an influx of ex-stellantis employees. If they are a reflection of the calibre of the rest of stallantis no wonder they’re fucked

 

[EpsomWolf]

Lot’s been said about the rights and wrongs behind forced EV transition but interesting Business Secretary Jonathon Reynolds is looking at the mandate.

I don’t think anyone thought it was going to be easy but at the moment it’s just a mess:

Electric car sales targets could be eased as demand flags

The government faces pressure from the industry to make changes to electric vehicle sales quotas.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Kenny]

There are flexibilities in the system, allowing manufacturers who can’t meet the targets to buy "credits" from those that can.

In practice, this means buying credits from companies such as Tesla or Chinese firm BYD, which build electric models exclusively.

this was the case and Tesla made a fortune from it. So the Tory Government removed it and only allow the credits to be moved around the cars in a group.

So if VW are miles ahead of their target they can pass the credits on to Skoda, Cupra etc but not to Ford etc.

Seeing the figures at the moment, only likely that BMW and Merc (not inc EV only brands) will hit the target this year but there is no penalties for failing this year anyway.

A rumbling in the industry that PHEVs will be included in the target soon, especially as cars are now coming out with 80+ miles ranges but then they are changing the VED bandings to hammer that type in the coming years.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Sounds like an almighty fuck up to be honest.

 

[Kenny]

As with a lot of things in this area....intention good...execution shite.

 

[Walshes Wolves]

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/22/northvolt-files-bankruptcy-protection-europe-electric-vehicles-battery?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17327901180413&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2F2024%2Fnov%2F22%2Fnorthvolt-files-bankruptcy-protection-europe-electric-vehicles-battery

 

[Walshes Wolves]

Volkswagen has ‘a year, maybe two to turn around’, financial chief warns

Carmaker defends plan to close German plants as Volvo ditches target to sell only electric cars by 2030

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It is almost like Europe and the UK thought of a plan to strengthen China and other Asian countries, and at the same time weaken our own industries.

 

[Walshes Wolves]

Is China cannibalising the EU car industry? | Automotive industry | The Guardian

amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[EpsomWolf]

You couldn’t make some of this stuff up, one fuck up after another.

 

[Jolemai]

I think my clutch has gone
Difficulty changing gear. If I start it in first or reverse, the car vibrates. Garage is half a mile away and I'm hoping it can get there without being towed...

 

[sycophantia]

I think my clutch has gone
Difficulty changing gear. If I start it in first or reverse, the car vibrates. Garage is half a mile away and I'm hoping it can get there without being towed...

Hopefully not the actual clutch, maybe the master cylinder or slave cylinder.

 

[Jolemai]

Hopefully not the actual clutch, maybe the master cylinder or slave cylinder.

Will find out on Tuesday