Alex Kefford

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@RoadworkUK Triumph Dolomite. Wood so good it escaped the dashboard and set up home on the door caps, too. Bonus Russet Brown action.

With everybody in the automotive world EXCEPT ME heading to Goodwood right now, lets see some Good Wood. I'll start with the magnificent dashboard of a Rover SD1.

Recent auctions have seen many classic cars struggle to find homes, while those that do sell have fallen well short of their estimates. But has interest in classics really fallen by the wayside, or is it a long overdue correction? linkedin.com/pulse/has-bott…

@timoldland Moab will be heaving with EJS, worth checking your preferred trails will still be open. If you can push return leg into Colorado, look up Million Dollar Highway. I drove coast-to-coast in a British RHD Jeep twojeeps.com - probably 7k miles and still missed so much!

Booked a family holiday for Easter next year. Vegas -> Zion Nat Park -> Moab -> Page -> Grand Canyon -> Vegas. Main focus is 4 days in Moab, so had to rent something silly for the road trip. Step forward this 6.4 litre V8 Jeep Wrangler 392 😎 First time using Turo, but a chunky V8 with a roof that goes back should be epic when cruising the canyon roads and will handle all the trail roads to get to various hikes with ease.

@t2stu @CR_AWV My theory is that everything has been tweaked to favour those that cough-up for blue ticks. Non-payers are bumped down the list by the algorithm.

@RoadworkUK I miss sidewalls. 🛞

Seeing an XJS in the wild always cheers me up, even if the Leapers on this one make my eyes twitch a bit.

@CrackedW_Screen BTW, 'unfair' was aimed at Autocar, not you!

@CrackedW_Screen Tad unfair, that. The new Spring hasn't been assessed by Euro NCAP yet, the one star is for the old one.

@CrackedW_Screen As a bonus point - if we implemented a Singapore-style system, it would cost taxpayers £5.2 BILLION for the mandated black boxes alone. And at Singapore's rate of deployment, it would take 60 YEARS to equip all 40 million vehicles.

@CrackedW_Screen Not to mention huge costs of administering the system. TfL currently spends 65% of all ULEZ+LEZ revenue on running it. At that rate, road pricing would have to raise more than £50bn just to mirror the current VED+RFD tax take.

@hiltonholloway Singapore is often held up as the doyen of road pricing schemes. If we mirrored their model, it would cost the taxpayer more than £5.2 BILLION for the mandated black boxes alone, and at their rate of deployment, would take 60 YEARS to equip all 40 million vehicles. 2/2

@hiltonholloway For 2022/23, CC income was £358m, costs were £135m - that's 38% of all revenue lost in running the scheme. ULEZ+LEZ is even worse: £598m revenue, £389m in costs - 65% gone. Imagine how much RP would have to raise if it was still to generate £32bn for HMT - £50bn? Also... 🧵1/2

Currently, road fuel tax is the easiest tax to collect. It is also a near-perfect proposition because it costs virtually nothing to collect. What a pity TfL no longer breaks out the cost of collecting the C-Charge....

@PaulCowland_ Fun fact: the Viper's V10 engine block was developed by Lamborghini. They were a Chrysler subsidiary at the time.

Viper definitely delivered. Honda E concept, not so much...

Hi @I_W_M - You have closed your Duxford archive to researchers, for years now, although it is still staffed. 1) Why is it closed to the public ? 2) When is it going to reopen ? People are having to cancel book projects because you are not making your archive records available. You have a responsibility to preserve and maintain access to historical documents, and the current situation is not acceptable.

The Imperial War Museum @I_W_M continues to erroneously claim copyright over countless historical images and charges hyperinflated fees for their use. It's time this stopped and that images captured at great sacrifice for everyone, be made available, for everyone.

@RoadworkUK These are now one of the UK's most endangered cars. At the current rate of attrition, they'll all be gone in four years. Whether anyone will mourn that stat is another matter...

Citroen Pluriel. One of the very worst cars I've ever driven, with all the torsional rigidity of a creme caramel. Entirely hilarious as a result. This one has structural gaffer tape on the roof.

@hugo_griffiths Beeper for aftermarket parking sensors, I would suggest.

@PetrolTed Awesome. A perfect match.

@TallDriver Exactly that Alex.

Nearly finished #volvo #v8

Must-see holiday commercial from Chevrolet. This will be the best five minutes you spend today. Warning: Be prepared to cry.