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Changing Thoughts for Changing Times

April 22, 2009

I’ve been spending time with friends from overseas these last few evenings. Some of what they tell me about where they live is quite surprising. We in the UK (particularly Daily Mail readers) would never think ourselves to be ahead of the game when it comes to quality of life and cost/standard of living, but [...]

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A Dice not Rolled

March 31, 2009

Anyone who has ever been abroad knows that Dacia is Renault’s bargain basement badge, home of old Meganes, and that the brand sells pretty well in both France and Spain, both countries where the main Renault lineup has always been a good retail proposition. Last year, Renault announced that they were delaying bringing Dacia to [...]

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Summer is coming

March 6, 2009

So here we are in March, increasingly aware that the summer is coming, bringing the promise of better times ahead. The classic car market is doing OK at IB price levels, lots of interest in events and almost 20 guys signed up for the Le Mans track day this May. Cars are coming out of [...]

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Bad News Media

February 5, 2009

The blinkered attitude of the media towards their reporting of the economic crisis continues to amaze. This item in today’s Times reports that 500 jobs are to go at the Transit plant in Southampton. The piece states: Ford, the US car giant, today announced that it was cutting 850 British jobs as new vehicle registrations [...]

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