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by STEVE G
Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Car auctions
Replies: 13
Views: 787

Re: Car auctions

Geez, I give up! It has nothing whatsoever to do with what "my brother" did, or how many auctions you may have been to! What is being conducted here with these "auctions", is a DISPOSAL sale. Forfeited, or confiscated property, is being sold by a government to try and recoup unp...
by STEVE G
Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Car auctions
Replies: 13
Views: 787

Re: Car auctions

They also put "reserve" prices on cars, so it is not a true auction. Pretty much every auction (cars, antiques etc.) I've ever attended - UK, US, France and even Aus on one occasion will have a multitude if not the majority of items having a "reserve" (or bottom price if you wis...
by STEVE G
Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:27 am
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

As an aside Steve - could you even get in and out of the MG now? I know I can't!! :D
After a bit of hunting around, I found a couple of pictures.
I reckon I could still get in one but getting out might be a different thing!
by STEVE G
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:36 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

Some time ago I had an MG Midget which was our (well my) fun car for the summer - all good, but a suspect fuel gauge. Both the LHG and I loved going out for a drive in the countryside, miles away from anywhere... I had one of those back in the eighties and it always used to break down way before th...
by STEVE G
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

The cost of everything electric is plummeting"? No, not really - running costs certainly not, materials certainly not, efficiency perhaps. In countries with abundant solar resources, the value of daytime electricity is heading down to practically nothing. I realise that on here, many people ob...
by STEVE G
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

The end of the oil age: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/28/opinion-the-end-of-the-oil-age/ "The 21st century will almost certainly be the Electricity Age. The cost of everything electric is plummeting while efficiency is rising. While this trend was pioneered in the United States, China (a va...
by STEVE G
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Foo
Topic: News of the Weird - this just in!
Replies: 1681
Views: 108444

Re: News of the Weird - this just in!

^I just watched that rescue on a US news channel and it was pretty impressive. Basically they lowered a responder down from the end of a horizontally extended fire ladder. It was a gutsy thing to do because there was obviously significant hazard of the truck moving during the rescue.
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: The Pick-Up Truck Thread
Replies: 434
Views: 31256

Re: The Pick-Up Truck Thread

This new BYD is going to make the average Japanese brand pickup look a bit pedestrian: The PHEV version of the pickup is expected to deliver 490 hp from two electric motors and a 1.5-liter turbo engine https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/byds-new-truck-is-ford-rangers-brother-from-another-mother/ Tha...
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: The Pick-Up Truck Thread
Replies: 434
Views: 31256

Re: The Pick-Up Truck Thread

This new BYD is going to make the average Japanese brand pickup look a bit pedestrian:

The PHEV version of the pickup is expected to deliver 490 hp from two electric motors and a 1.5-liter turbo engine
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/byds- ... er-mother/
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:34 pm
Forum: Health Issues
Topic: Thailand plans to decriminalize cannabis
Replies: 160
Views: 102021

Re: Thailand plans to decriminalize cannabis

PeteC wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:08 pm Every joint has to be rolled in papers with a nasty picture on it espousing the dangers of pot. :banghead:
Since all these cannabis shops opened in Thailand, I've wondered why you could openly promote it on the front of your business whilst cigarettes have to be hidden from view.
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: The bikers thread; trips, news, chat, all things motorcycle
Replies: 670
Views: 70558

Re: The bikers thread; trips, news, chat, all things motorcycle

buksida wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:28 am Doesn't sound like it'll be much help if you come off though. :duck: I remember the old plastic 'icecream tub' helmets that would break if you stood on one ... they're unlikely to get pinched!
You can still get them, 199bt in Lotus!
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:30 am
Forum: Motoring
Topic: The bikers thread; trips, news, chat, all things motorcycle
Replies: 670
Views: 70558

Re: The bikers thread; trips, news, chat, all things motorcycle

I've got a twenty year old half helmet that we got with our first Honda Wave, ( from around 2003 ). I've always used it for going around Hin Lek Fai because it's so easy to plonk it on your head. A couple of years ago, a new dog we had chewed the chin strap off of it, so as punishment, I cut off a p...
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:04 am
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

^The traditional car manufacturers slowly crept up the price of new cars during a prolonged period of low interest rates. In the US, the average price of a new car went from something like 30,000USD to 50,000USD in ten years Money isn't cheap anymore and the western car companies aren't going to sur...
by STEVE G
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:56 am
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1691
Views: 284136

Re: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread

^This article from last year has a picture of the site and it's not exactly an area of outstanding natural beauty!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-65645201
by STEVE G
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:10 am
Forum: South Of Hua Hin
Topic: Khao Tao Lake
Replies: 281
Views: 33903

Re: Khao Tao Lake

I've eaten lunch at a small local restaurant with a view of the lake for over twenty years when I'm in Thailand and I always thought it looked perfectly attractive without a building in the middle of it.