Balazs Varhelyi
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Balazs Varhelyi
@vhb1978
EV driver since 2017 classic car fan
Manchester, England Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Ok that's roughly 356k net that is 29.7k pcm. Some people work for less in a whole year.
The Way of Jerz@TheJerzWay
British consultant billing £650K/year. HMRC took £287K. His plan: "I'll become a non-dom." Non-dom rules got gutted in 2025. We moved him to Dubai. No personal income tax. He invoices through a US LLC. Banks in Singapore. Assets in a Nevis trust. From £287K in tax to £0. His old accountant said "you'll get caught." Caught doing what? Being legal?
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@ListerLawrence So what you're saying you actually get the real Ranger Rover experience, even at that price?
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@car_tortenet A Zsiguli/Lada hiány oka: '71 nyarán futott be az első szállítmány.
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The most perfect Polish smile in history captured
Eastern Bloc Visuals@eastblocvisuals
Ice cream vendor in Wrocław, 1970.
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@DeadCarWalking The engine. Classmate's dad used one as a Taxi in the early 90's. Rust won finally but the engine was still ticking
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Which is cooler?
The two-tone paintwork or the roof rack?
Volkswagen Passat 1.6 D hatchback (B2 facelift, 1987) spotted in Pécs/Hungary.
#Volkswagen #PassatB2 #VWWednesday
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Cars don’t have souls and people need to get over that.
Whatever you drive your car has characteristics that may be unique to the brand, the model or the specification.
I’ve owned many, many cars over 35 years of driving and not once did I sense a soul there.
My eldest dog has a soul and I love him to bits. I’ll also be overwhelmed with grief when he goes.
I’ve never grieved over a car going. I’ve really liked some cars, but I quickly moved on to the next one.
It doesn’t mean to say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed some cars. I have. And I currently enjoy my current car.
Having owned a few Alfa Romeo’s, a Lancia HF Turbo, a V6, straight six, V8, V12, plenty of turbocharged performance cars, a supercharged car and some EVs, they’ve all offered good, engaging, entertaining drives. None had a soul.
Equally I’ve owned some terrible cars through hard times and they didn’t drive as nicely and were less pleasant places to sit.
They didn’t have a soul, either.
Some of my cars sung wonderful notes, but they didn’t have a soul.
Some felt like they pivoted from my hips, but they didn’t have a soul either.
When my cars broke down, I was cheesed off. In fact, I felt a sense of some being badly engineered (cough cough Alfa). They didn’t have a soul either.
What tickles our fancy is a combination of great engineering, amazing driving characteristics, how well it steers into a bend, or the glorious noise from lift-off, or fast acceleration. It excites us, makes us want to drive it for no good reason, brings a smile to our face, but still it has no soul. It has great characteristics.
We need to get past looking at cars that don’t appeal to us and slamming it as a soulless box. Some will treasure their cars irrespective of what it is, but for most people, they just need a tool to get from A to B and will either opt for a trusted brand, or great value.
A few will look for cars with special features, great driving dynamics, speed and a sense of having the car wrapped around you like I did with my old -Y-reg BMW E46 with a nice straight six in it.
But it had no soul. And it died after 18 years so off I went to replace it. No grief.
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Remélhetőleg akkor egy korszak lezárult, és már csak viccelődve fogunk emlékezni rájuk.
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Fideszesek spotiján itt az első helyezett.
Егор Летов - Всё идёт по плану. youtu.be/2ift8T7eVEo?si…
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Elsőre azt hittem, h ezek AI képek, de nem. Ez a Skoda 740 prototípus. Ami Skodához képest nagyon fura benne az az, hogy orrmotorja volt, hátul hajtott, 1200 köbcentis OHC motorja volt, ami kb 56 lóerőt tudott.
Érdekes jelenség.
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@graeme_cobb Is this with CCS finally? And what's the charging rate on DC?
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@gombapresszo rakuszkó, érted?
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Fun bit of Austrian trivia: The word for "Austria" in most European languages refers to the "Eastern Empire". The Czechs however reference the name of a castle near the border. Source: #lightbox" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…
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@doncidomper @DesolateHun Ez olyan kb., hogy valójában a nyugat és az oroszok háborúznak, az ukránok csak a helyszínt biztosítják hozzá.
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@DesolateHun FYI ez amúgy egy külsős event volt. Csak kiadták egy bulira egy cégnek. (Egy barátom dolgozik a helyen) tehát a Virtunak, mint étterem nem sok köze volt hozzá csak a helyszínt biztosították. Még csak mentőt sem kellett hívni.
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@Mr_Husky1 Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo
That's where you want to go to get away from it all
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Went here thinking it’d be a chill breakfast and everything just went f#cking downhill.
Three of us. THREE. And somehow breakfast turned into a $313 disaster like we ordered gold plated eggs. $22 avocado toast, $12 WATER, coffee priced like rent, then management has the audacity to slap on auto gratuity and VAT like they didn’t already bend us over.
Nothing tasted life changing, nothing justified the price, it was just overpriced plates and vibes of you’re on vacation so shut up. And the best part? They still leave space for extra tip like this whole bill wasn’t already a scam approved by management. This isn’t luxury, it’s lazy pricing and greedy management hoping no one calls them out. Completely f#cked
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Mindeközben a Stellantis meg a többiek átgondolják az EV stratégiájukat. @ninokarotta
EV Clinic@evclinic
🇺🇸A250e W177 Mercedes Plug-in Hybrid (2023) with a contactor counter zeroed at 20,000 km. This is an error we have encountered on all EV and hybrid vehicles since models dating back to 2010, which officially requires replacement of the entire battery system. In this specific case, for a customer from Milan, Italy, the cost exceeds €8,000, with the old battery required to be recycled and a new one manufactured—even though the cells themselves are fully functional. The error cannot be cleared using OBD tools, not even with Vediamo / DTS Monaco engineering tools, because there is no command available to reset the counter. Consequently, even the highest level of authorized service using Xentry cannot reset it. The BMS system is similar to those used in the Smart 453, EQC, and other Mercedes-Benz hybrids. Very often, this issue is actually a firmware bug: for example, a weak 12V battery can cause a 5V power glitch that corrupts the EEPROM, or the system may detect a fault that does not actually exist (as seen on the 453 EQ, for example, where after error “driving not possible” and after towing the vehicle later drives normally again). We opened the battery, identified a possible root cause, restored the battery, and performed an SPC processor firmware recovery. The vehicle started again, with the contactor counter error cleared. The method is invasive and requires a programmer. The cells are healthy, the vehicle continues to operate, the owner was spared €8,000 in costs, and miners were “saved” from digging new cobalt. Part numbers: A1773402100, A7899013201, A1779007708, Accumotive GmbH Error: P1D2800 – The frequency counter “Switching cycles of contactors” of the high-voltage battery module has reached its final value. OEM: 8000€ EVC: 2000€ EV Clinic saved around ~2 t CO₂. Dear OEM, we can expand and solve your problem of sustainability! EV Clinic R&D labs capable of battery recovery: Zagreb, Ljubljana, Berlin, Belgrade
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