Clarkson on the topic of BlairApologies if you have already seen this. Clarkson: Love him or Hate him - he has a point! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Another day, and another letter arrives from another...
hehe I agree.. it is not good, but there are plenty of other cars out there that can't keep up with it, or their drivers just don't use the loud pedal as much. The 0-60 time has been timed to be 13.5 seconds, this is a lot shorter than the specifications for vehicle. I usually get 50-55MPG with 380-440 miles per £32 tank full of fuel.
I don't get any choice of company car, but when it gets replaced in 30K it will be replaced by a Focus 1.6 turbo diesel estate. I drive between 400 and 600 miles on a normal day. One working day in every 7, I spend in the office, The job is as a computer field service for a video rental chain. Most days are 10-12 hour days with driving time being around 8-10 hours. I cover all of UK including NI (also Germany) although I tend to fly to NI (and Germany) and hire a car when I get there.
As an example of a normal week, this is where I have been this week. Based from Peterborough, Monday was Blackpool and Manchester, Tuesday Darlington and Newcastle, Wednesday was Thamesmead, Gillingham, Stowmarket and Thetford, Thursday was my office day but I went to Southend-on-Sea on a emergency job, and finally for this week today I went to Porthcawl and then 2 jobs in Bristol. That comes to 1759 miles for business only, and according to autoroute it is 4 days, 3 hours and 41 minutes of driving time. 48 weeks of similar mileage works out at 84432 miles, that's how I manage to do so many miles. I had a telephone call from Inland revenue a few weeks ago to answer a questionnaire for company car drivers as they had identified me as being near he top of the top 1% of the uk's highest mileage drivers. There are not that many people that do more driving for work than I do, and I doubt there are many that have to suffer it in such an uncomfortable car.
Look out for a 03 plate cayenne red skoda fabia estate with some large antennas on the roof. The one on the right rear is the VHF-UHF amateur antenna, the one on the left rear is the HF antenna (or just the triple mag mount) . Smaller antennas on the car are a 2.4Gig collinear and a GPS patch mag mount and an on glbutt mobile phone antenna.
Clarkson on the topic of Blair 5442Following up to Clive George So you would only take part in the democratic process if your vote is the casting one? Consider this, prospective parliamentarians contest hopeless seats, if they do quite well...
