June 2009 Archives

Motoring surveys, I find, are usually either a shameless attempt to get free publicity for a search engine or pointless comparisons of regional personal motoring hygiene.

I have variously been told that you will find the most filthy footwells in Netherhamptonwallop and that as many as 90% of people really are people while the remaining 10% claim to be biscuit-human hybrids from Pontefract.

Today, police in Warwickshire are generously holding a family fun day for travellers with all manner of junketing and frolics including a balloon race, a Roma band, story-telling, face painting and a bouncy castle.

IT is generally accepted that the invention of radio traffic reports, like Durex, was expected to contribute to eradicating some of those little accidents that occur when we become distracted or over excited.
if you know there is something up ahead that needs avoiding you won't go slamming into it. So to speak.
Right, here's the problem. How do you turn the traffic advice off? I know it's more entertaining than Ken Bruce but TA always come on at full volume and usually has news of something so remote to your interest I may as well be the Nepalese cricket results.
And because the traffic tottie has to justify her salary the most obscure ad unimportant two car tail backs on a rural farm track are included.
I really do not want to be told repeatedly that there is a queue at a chip shop in Stoke.
And, of course, I know how to turn of the din, but as most radios are no more complicated than the European voting system that means looking in the handbook.
And I am sorry but anything in a car that requires reference to the literature is a failure.

Right, listen up at the back.

Want to earn 1100 fresh oncers my son? Come and have a word wiv uncle Arfur.
All totally kosher, nuffin 'ooky about it.

I am deeply uncomfortable with urban life. Can you blame me?

Just look a the news. Last week some men took off all their clothes and cycled around a city centre to protest about cars. No one in the sticks takes off their clothes to protest about anything.

For the second year in a row the Volkswagen Phaeton has won the Luxury Car category at the British Insurance Vehicle Security Awards

Why? Well here's the detail for those of you liing in a bi of a Burberry area.

You probably have to be in the anorak bracket to have been waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Nissan's luxury brand, Infinity.

G37 Saloon, Coupé and Convertible are a trio of performance cars with one level of quality and driver appeal in a choice of three stunning bodies.

Time to get your own back, dad.

Never mind all those phones going off around the house as the text traffic hots up, forget those jolly japes of mens' bits on video here's mobile just for you.

Had I known the entire European electorate was going to be so inclined towards protest voting | would have taken the opportunity to launch my own political party.

And jolly well it would have done too, given the ever so slight far-right connotations of its name: Joy Through Motoring.

They are cheaper than a last minute package holiday and just as hot.

Seat Ibiza FR, Cupra and Bocanegra prices have been announced twenty minutes ago.
Sorry for the delay!