On this week’s automotive adventures, Steve puts the Honda E on hectic roads, becomes enraged in opposition to the corporate advertising device and enjoys a relaxing and sunny afternoon at Bicester Motion.
Monday
After writing about the new Honda E a few weeks ago, I had to buy one to drive on my favorite bumpy roads, to see if what I had said about the best guide and the incredibly quiet bumps absorption was about cash. After 400 miles, I still think that was the case. I also had the opportunity to say more and feel how their grip and agility seem to contradict their empty weight of 1500 kg. Unfortunately, an E will not be registered in our stable. Here, on the sticks, we want more than 125 miles. Give us two hundred with the same package and the same functionality and our cash would already be out
Tuesday
I suppose it’s herbal for underpaid inkies like me and my colleagues, used to generating thousands of words a week, to be skeptical of advertising creators who take weeks to create a handful of gold syllables. One story I like about this was the creation years ago of a recruiting slogan for the Metropolitan Police: the national firm’s talents struggled to believe “Dull it not.”
We’re back in family territory with Nissan’s latest slogan. Printed classified ads and ad radio stations stick together: “Together, let’s move further.” Every time I hear this ridiculous non-phrase, it generated a bill for you and me buying a Lamborghini, I get angry.
Wednesday
He participated in a discussion on the implementation of electric cars over the next 12 to 15 years, led by formula E team Envision Virgin, coinciding with the season restart. The panel consisted of several types of cycling on the global climate and in London, as well as a spokesperson for National Grid and I. I fear the worst, having faced other people before, but discovered that the occasion was uplifting.
The Grid type is self-confident and optimistic, saying, “We will build our offshore wind power 3 or 4 times over the next 10 years and use the additional blank energy for electric cars.”
Climate activists were more credible than many; they agreed that the government deserves to specify how it will update the billions raised in oil taxes and that the pricing infrastructure will not adapt until it is in fact understandable and abundant. Even better, everyone is satisfied with the concept of a successful car industry, employing 7% of Europe’s workforce. Maybe we are even though everything’s coming together.
Friday
An eminently friendly and capable little car with dynamics but limited diversity and an ambitious price
Late relaxing in the sun of Bicester Motion, the former RAF base “distorted in time” is being reshaped sensibly into a new type of hub for vintage cars and long-term generation companies. Kingpin Dan Geoghegan, who has a sense of well-developed community, sponsored an open-air lunch “We are open again,” putting the station’s developing population to serve food and beer, the latter coming from its own Wriggly Monkey microbrewery on site. (A shaky monkey, if you ask, is a transmission device for an old Frazer-Nash car.) Bicester Motion is a destination almost too good for me, a hundred miles circular on lovely roads, and I see myself hanging out there many things in a long-term bright and coronavirus-free.
Saturday
Years ago, a Coach inmate, Derek Redfern, devised a club racing concept he called Target Time Racing, in which cars of all kinds (sedans, sports cars, old, new, big, small) competed in races with a lap time-based eligibility only. If your Volkswagen Golf GTI can only make a 1-minute, 27-second trip, just like a Hillman Imp, it looked for them to run. I felt it was the antidote to the single-design career that took over; sandbags would be immediately sent back to more difficult classes. Now comes the news that BARC is launching such a series of races at its next assembly in Donington. And with impressive grace and modesty, the club hailed the inventor of the idea. Redfern, as you can imagine, is muffled.
And besides…
More Honda: I lazily wonder how the load fixed on the hood of little E can cope with the rain. I went out into the street and realized that it had been placed in a bucket and that the load had not been completely affected. Decent port in a storm, you’ll say Array..
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