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14 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Note also that a lot of the DAF trucks you see around the UK and elsewhere are Leylands - engineered and built by Leyland but with DAF branding as the Leyland brand is long gone. You still see Leyland stickers in the door jamb on modern DAF trucks. The ones that are Leylands, that is 

Nowadays all Leyland is really is another PACCAR factory. All LFs and CF65s (i.e. everything with a Cummins engine) are made in Leyland, and as are RHD larger CFs and XFs or whatever it's called these days. However most of the parts come from abroad so it's really just an assembly site.

Just seen this on TheFacebook, green laning in a midibus.

I think self-deletion of threads is fair game if let's say it's in the FAQ section and maybe a question has been answered and probably is no longer needed to be up - so other threads can therefore take precedent on the page etc. However this seems to be the minority of cases and thread deletion seems to be a vehicle for deleting whole conversations, which is a bit annoying.

My idea: stop _all_ deletion of all content (other than mod/admin deletions), but keep the edit function. If somebody wants to remove their content for whatever reason, they can edit it all out so you just have an empty post itself.

On 06/04/2024 at 17:07, D.E said:

Leeds? I think the taxis there are still black and white.

What a fantastic typeface

On 02/04/2024 at 19:35, martc said:

When did the UK switch from imperial to metric fuel pricing?

On 03/04/2024 at 12:19, horriblemercedes said:

The system was changed to a banded CO2-based one in March 2001

And few years ago to 'price based' where a car becomes magically a lot more expensive to tax if it costs more than £40k.

None of these three systems have any relevance whatsoever to road use, net CO2 emissions or emission cleanliness which are three things VED could be targeted at.

And yet the £20 band remains. Bank K is a nominal doubling of CO2 emissions from Band B - yet is twenty times as expensive.

VED really is the most stupidly designed tax.

How is a moped more expensive to tax than a mid-2000s diesel car?

Lots of 1950s technology going on in this photo.

9 hours ago, mat777 said:

it's once again within 90 mins of the parents

That's usually a reason to avoid the area.

Well up for this

The Mexican HSTs were shipped like that too. Bizarre. May also be cheaper, RoRos from Asia to Europe are probably very busy these days.

Bi for export. Random post that came up on my TheFacebook, interesting that they are being loaded into a bulk carrier instead of a roro ship - maybe busses are too large for them which are presumably designed to carry cars only.

20 minutes ago, egg said:

Oh crikey a P reg. That's cool. Somebody somewhere needs to start a P reg register like K reg Mondeos, S reg Foci, Y reg BINI etc....

F-reg Protons.

On 02/03/2024 at 17:15, KruJoe said:

A 10 year old car, built to last, with everything you may ever need? Step this way, sir.

AWD, keep-fit winders, auto. Perfect.

https://www.japanesecartrade.com/5702870-japan-used-toyota-probox-van-van-minivan-2014.html

These are ridiculously popular in Siberia, pretty much every minicab in Irkutsk was a Probox when I went there a few years ago. European Russia tends to (well, did) buy European stuff whereas Eastern Russia is all functional Japanese cars like this.

@Moderators please can we ban @SEATMad as he will have bankrupted us all shortly with the amount of appetising purchases he keeps posting on here!

THREE-A

Also spotted this the other day... on my own car! Nice little touch.

14 hours ago, garethj said:

I think these diesels go a bit, especially when you turn up the wick.  Obviously the wheels can FRO

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266661209653?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rFtgDSygS7a&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=y9xs1hiVQ9O&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I had one of these a couple of years ago. IMHO, the best vehicle an XUD engine came in. Far nicer and more refined car than the French stuff.