@hiltonholloway Brave move. Could work; shallow
glasshouse could be on a supercar.
But remember the Mk 3 Primera? Nakamura always reckoned that was one step too far.
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Julian Rendell
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Julian Rendell
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Cars. Car Industry. Freelance Journalist @autocar @autoitalia Rugby Cricket Wales Aeroplanes
London, England Katılım Mart 2009
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That email specifically mentioned Epstein sharing his houses. Clearly, fancy houses are his weakness. From Mandy's loan to help him up the housing ladder to being a guest of Epstein in various places. Now he's lost the ambassador's residence. Bet that was nice.
Lee Rotherham@DrBrexit
Turns out otherwise. bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
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@LobAllan Whether that’s cynical or just standard business practice is probably a debate to have.
An EV, for example, with a fully flat skateboard floor, could have a very flexible interior seat layout, if the cost of engineering crash safety for multiple seat positions isn’t too high.
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@jrendell I expected it was the usual cynical marketing reasons. We need kei car-style tax incentives to end the bloat.
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Late to the Inster and annoyed about it: what a genuinely brilliant little car. Way cleverer than other small EVs.
Here's my sat behind my driving position in the Alpine (agony) for comparison. If all small cars had sliding rear seats maybe we'd stop buying bloated barges.
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Yesterday at Thruxton the 1300ti was joined by two fab Giulia saloons for a feature in a coming issue of @AutoItaliaMag. As always photographer Michael Ward put in the hard yards to grab the shot.
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Great day meeting fellow Giulia owners and their fabulous cars. Many thanks to Simon and Peter for their help. Now to the writing.
Auto Italia Magazine@AutoItaliaMag
What a great shoot. Three iconic Alfas with stories to tell. @thruxtonracing @jrendell
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69k jobs in hospitality already wiped-out by tax and NI rises. Top estimate is 150k.
The mine closures of the 80s/90s resulted in 170k to 200k jobs lost.
The same scale. Staggering.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
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@hiltonholloway I don’t do political podcasts, so no view. But it would be interesting to try some from the BBC and discover whether the views/content/expert views are more balanced and nuanced than the TV coverage.
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@jrendell Non-sports people like me are a bit lost.
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Tried the R4 woke test on Sunday. Heading up A1. Flicked it on. Immediately. [The fruity lefty upper middle class accent] 'The first time I was arrested...'
Professional hard core climate protester profiled as if she was worthy of veneration'. Put the Donald Fagen CD back on.
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Cap’n Jac player of the match.
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British & Irish Lions@lionsofficial
A moment to savour for Jac Morgan 🦁 #Lions2025
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Julian Rendell retweetledi
Our planning system was created in 1947. And for most of recent memory the UK had been in a building frenzy
Partly that was WW2 – the Air Ministry built 9,000 miles of runway in six years. That’s 4x the length of our motorway network
But also a massive prewar housing boom
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@Bangernomics @hiltonholloway Worth noting that synthetic modern engine oils are synthesised from natural gas, not crude oil.
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@hiltonholloway Don't full into the Synthetic Oil Trap. Another part of the agenda to price ordinary souls out of the driving seat.
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I've got some news. First hand story from the industry that car makers are quietly lining up to invest v v big in synthetic fuels. Is there an industry boss who is also huge in the chemical industry?
stekkerauto 🚗⚡️@stekkerauto
"Porsche built a pilot plant for e-fuels in 2022. 55 million liters were announced for next year. Currently, the plant can only manage 130,000 liters in the best case scenario. Just for comparison: in 2023, approximately 175 million liters of fuel were pumped in Germany – per day."
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Strong line form Nissan's Alan Johnson. "Simple fact is we (UK) are too expensive. Sunderland is most efficient plant Nissan has but once you've paid your elec, gas, NICs etc we are too expensive - any industrial strategy that doesn't tackle that is a waste of time.
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Audi and Porsche do not currently have North American production. But rumours at the start of the year suggested there were plans to add these brands to Chatanooga.
Audi is due into F1 in 2026, giving a global boost to its brand, esp with 2x F1 races in US. Interesting times.
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Contemporary reports listed Mexico as the potential alternative. The deciding factor appears to have been £110m state aid from the Slovakian government. That had to pass EU state aid laws, so was subject to some scrutiny.
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The US auto tariffs bring many decisions into focus, an interesting one is Tata’s decision to select Slovakia for Defender and Discovery production in 2017/2019.
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VW opted for Mexico, initially, followed by Chatanooga in 2011. Its sales are stagnant in the US. It will
Be fascinating if VW can find the right products to make in the US to benefit from this advantage.
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BMW and Mercedes set-up transplants in the US in the late 1990s for these reasons, plus the concerns about being too successful in the US and being singled-out for ‘taking advantage’.
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