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Fuck. Off. Fuck off all the way to Fuckington, then catch the 308 bus to Fuckstanton, walk up Fuckity Hill, then when you get to the top, FUCK OFF SOME MORE. The life threatening temperatures they’re furiously masturbating over? 33°C. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@stellacreasy Labour MPs thumbing your noses at members of the electorate angry with the mess your government have made isn’t a good look.

Jenrick and Farage celebrating and encouraging someone repeatedly shouting and swearing at a stranger he disagrees with in public is all you need to know about their actual belief in free speech. Manners maketh the men indeed.

@CoreyLewis86 …and that’s a 2CV in the same way as Ford currently makes a “Capri”. Learned nothing from retro-Renault. Can’t be long for Stellantis now really

The Panda is still on sale you dolts.

@Overlordmainst1 @Benleo Smart move. Her security detail unlikely to chase a moving tipper down the road.

@Benleo A bid cowardly. The guy didn't want to speak to her until he was safe inside his large van, ready for a quick getaway. He should grow a pair.

OH DEAR Rachel Reeves heckled by white van man as she visits a petrol station. “Get Starmer out! Get Labour out! You’re ruining the country! Are you going to arrest me for having an England flag? Get Farage in!” She lectures the guy about “manners”

@Benleo Shows just how tin eared she and her mate Keith are doing a presser like that. What did her comms people expect. She might like to remember folks like him are tax-paying potential voters for turning, not people to thumb her nose at.

@KateFantom @AutoInfatuation Also, as I discovered yet again in Oakham yesterday (the place is littered with them), if you’re going to get bullied by some entitled moron behaving as if their car is bigger than it actually is and as if they have priority, they’re more likely driving a “premium” SUV than not.

Your parent’s Vivaro is 50kWh, this is a 75kWh with a range of 180ish miles. Ours is a van, your parents is a people carrier. It’s also a budget vehicle, it’s made to a price. Nobody gets in to a work van costing 12k and thinks “door cards are cheap”. However, my point still stands. These are ridiculously sized vehicles carrying far too much weight for zero gain other than ‘status’. Their reliability will definitely be their fall down, as it is with every JLR product.

I have never interacted with this account before and judging by the replies to comments made on this post I do not wish to in the future, however I do know a thing or two about both vehicles pictured below and I look at things in a fair and sensible way 99% of the time so here’s my two pence; My parents have a 2022 Vauxhall Vivaro E-Life so essentially the Van below but with 9 seats, fully electric also but I’d say the same below if it had a Diesel engine under the bonnet as a disclaimer. As an EV it has a range of 128 miles if you’re lucky and I have personally been in it and driven it for enough time to make fair comment. It’s a crap car, my parents will tell you the same and are actively looking to get rid of it, materials are cheap and nasty and it’s one of the most mundane things to drive I have EVER experienced! The ride is awful and the seats are uncomfortable. I’ll agree there is a huge amount of space available though. It costs between £6-£8 to fully charge overnight and can be done on their driveway and my Mum generally charges it every two days depending on what she needs to do so fairly cheap in that regard vs a tank of Diesel currently. But now of course they have VED the same as any ICE car. The Defender on the other hand is one of the most popular models JLR now sell, I have clients who have everything from a D350 90 to a P425 V8 130 and all of them but one have adored them. Many people have switched into the 90 Defenders due to their commercial status after HMRC’s reclassification of the vast majority of Double Cab Pickup trucks in 2025 as private vehicles and the problems with BiK tax etc that brings so they are being used as work vehicles and not a ‘Luxury SUV’ so to speak. The Defender pictured has the lower powered 3.0 inline six Diesel badged as the D250 and I’m pretty sure will be on Air Suspension too so I know which one I’d rather drive everyday 🤷‍♂️ Although the black wheels can get in the bin 🗑️

@graeme_cobb I doubt any of the above will manage to dial back into their hatchback heyday in the same way Renault have.

📰 Some interesting, small, affordable, electric hatchbacks could be coming from the many brands under Stellantis in 2028. What would you like to see return? A Citroen Saxo VTR, or a Fiat 126, perhaps even a Vauxhall Nova to sit under the Corsa. notaguru.co.uk/blog/stellanti…

@tom550993 @autoalex Not even close to sensible 😆 Exton

@1viysy @autoalex Almost a good idea haha! Where about in Rutland?

I have been trying to work out what to buy. I want a full size Range Rover…which would tick a ‘luxury’ box. However, a Discovery 5 makes sense and it’s silly to have both. I miss my mulsanne, but that is profligate and I have little money…so a 2012 (ish) Conti GT is the current scheme. Discuss…

@TeslaJigsaw Stopped watching when it stopped being just about Robert’s electric home transition and @Carpervert ‘s road tests. Changing from channel to some kind of “global” corporate felt a bit like Robert was being exploited by grifters. Something felt off with it all anyhoo.

I was their BIGGEST fan. Panelist, Patreon supporter, event regular, even started my own channel partly because of them. Now I finally had to speak out about what happened to Fully Charged / Everything Electric. The name change, the silence on Tesla, my call with CEO Dan Ceaser… This one was hard to make. Watch below 👇

Mick Jagger’s found God but Al Pacino, Michael Caine & Keith Richards are NOT impressed. STELLA STREET (1997-2001) One of the greatest joys in the British TV Comedy canon. #PhilCornwell #JohnSessions

@Peston After this latest omnishambles (driven now solely by Starmer’s tin-eared arrogance) I suspect a significant slice of Labour’s traditional voters have given up on the party in the same way Tory voters have given up on them.

Keir Starmer does not want the Makerfield by-election to be an explicit referendum on whether he should remain prime minister. Which is why he has - just now - ruled out setting a timetable for his own resignation even if Andy Burnham wins that by-election. Truthfully this is Olympic level straw-clutching. It will be just such a referendum, whatever the PM says. As a tactic it reminds me of David Cameron vowing he would not quit if he were to lose the Brexit referendum. What transpired was that Cameron resigned within hours of being trounced by Johnson, Farage and Cummings. But some kind of amour propre is preserved by Starmer’s refusal to pledge to surrender the throne after one more battle. Starmer also says that if someone - say Burnham - were to get the requisite 81 nominations and were to trigger a leadership contest, he would join the fray and fight. If he is to be taken at his word, this isn’t just any old hard ball, but is death-match stuff, with the survival of the Labour Party in the frame. All the important trade union leaders want Starmer to quit, as do a significant number of Labour MPs (I am not going to say “most” because reliable data is not available, though the party is conspicuously split). Starmer is saying “bring it on, if you’re hard enough.” And we have to assume that the Evertonian Burnham believes he is. Starmer’s weekend of ruminating about his future at Chequers has not introduced much in the way of self doubt, for all that he is surrounded by those who doubt him. That is a genius of sorts. Hats off. Maybe as and when Burnham becomes an MP again, he will have the revelation that Starmer and Starmerism are a winning combination, despite the contrary evidence of multiple elections. And possibly Streeting, and Rayner, and Miliband will suddenly surrender any ambition to lead and change the course adopted by their party. Anything is possible in these volatile times. Though I wouldn’t attach a high probability to an outcome that increases Starmer’s job security. What is highly probable is that if Burnham wins and Starmer says he ain’t budging, we may witness the kind of mayhem that could destroy Labour. I am not exaggerating. Their party is so ideologically riven and so weakened by factionalism that an emotional leadership contest that barks like civil war may put paid to any rolling back of the stone and any escape from the grave.

@iSlimfit More than most folk take home after tax before bills so…

If you can comfortably save £2,500 to £3,000 after your monthly bills and rent/mortgage then there is absolutely no excuse for you not to be building wealth seriously right now.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Perhaps you should start by asking someone actually associated with @JeremyClarkson

How do we convince James May to make a guest appearance on Clarkson’s Farm?

@thealexbear I’d have been genuinely excited if I hadn’t literally just finished watching @autoalex and Taylor’s Conti GT efforts on Youtube 😬

historics.co.uk/auction/lot/lo… this just really struggled to sell for £6250. Ridiculous value

@Mattisamazing33 Knew he was “special” since first seeing him in Channel4’s Skins. Such a natural talent

James Bond. Cavill would be great. Theo James killed his chance with those god awful Range Rover adverts. It’s got to be Jack O’Connell. He portrayed British Army psychopath brilliantly in SAS Rogue Heroes. And that’s what Bond is. A British Army psychopath

@TeslaJigsaw @graeme_cobb @notaguru3 Just bought 2 used EVs for myself and my ex-wife, replacing older EVs. Looked at used Model 3 (again), but the saloon boot and (on paper at least) worse than average batt’ deg ruled it out. Bought Polestar2 dual motor and an ID4 First Edition instead

UK Used BEV sales just exploded 32% in one quarter while the overall used car market stayed flat. Why? 🤔 £10k Teslas are flooding the market… Is this the tipping point? Video below 👇 @graeme_cobb @notaguru3

@AutoPap I don’t need a bigger car than the Twingo. But I do need something that can do Spain & Berlin a few times a year. Any small petrol car can do that. Sub 250m range/50kW charging/no battery cooling so can’t be repeatedly rapid charged rules it out.Stuck with a bigger EV than i need

I think this could be the new Aston Martin Cygnet. Hear me out. It’s a little too expensive to be a main car for a family as the range isn’t good for a road trip. Don’t compare it to the failed Honda E as that was over £32k. Price killed that car not range. It’s affordable enough to be good for someone who lives in Chiswick, does a lot of work in Shoreditch has a sports car but doesn’t want to drive it daily. This works perfectly in that scenario and the styling is funky enough to stand out for this West London Peacock. This car feels like it has more interior space than the 5 and with the adjustable rear seats, you can fit occasional passengers in more easily. Price hasn’t been announced yet but under £20k before the grant makes this something that loads will consider. And many will put the costs against their corporation tax, so it’ll be even cheaper. Would I have one after the R5? YES! Just my 2 pennies worth.

@AutoPap The rear wiper is comically small

Driven the little Twingo around London this afternoon. First thing I notice is that it drives over uneven surfaces so well. It feel bigger than the R5 and it has plenty of power, even on the M4.

@AutoPap Can it be had with a ragtop sunroof like the first Twingo?

And here it is. The coolest rarest red car in London today. Can’t wait to spend a few days with Le Frog 🐸