Results tagged “car” from Liverpool Echo - Driving Passion

Funny how you start a thread and before you know it all sorts of associated stories start arriving.
This week's specialist subject - kids in cars

Hedgehogs are not the only endangered species on the roads. Car dealers are looking a bit shaky in the current climate, too.

Drinking too much can make women with more than one set of facial features look attractive

Funny how when you start a thread all sorts of complementary material starts to appear out of the blue. Or in this case the Bluetooth.

Look, selling a car privately is about as stressful as bathing with a crocodile. I did it this year and won’t be doing it again. Well not until the next time anyway.
What is interesting is how far people will travel in response to your advert in Auto Liar or whatever publication you have used to stretch the fabric of reality. One careful owner, ha, I’ve seen you parking.
When I was flogging the MG one gaggle of blokes drove up from Stafford to Lancashire hot foot to beat a lad driving from Cannock. They then looked at the car and walked away because it did not have electric windows. You drove 70 miles to find that out?
There is, however, good reason to travel distances for a car. Price mainly. Average asking prices for used superminis vary by as much as 10 per
cent across the UK and the Midlands is currently the best place to go in search of a low-priced car.
Small three-year-old cars in the Midlands average £5,500. This is around £350 less than in the South West, where asking prices for second-hand
superminis are highest.
After the South West, the second most expensive region for used superminis is the South East, with East Anglia in third place, tracking slightly higher than the national average of £5,675.
I can tell one place you will never find a bargain. My house.

Look, I didn’t come up the river on a tea tray, RoadPilot is keen to warn you of possible new speeding legislation because it sells speed detector equipment but....
How much more of this do we have to take? For the love of spam fritters, Britain is not only the safest place to drive, walk, ride a bike and have public sex in Europe, it also has more cameras than Dixons. And anyway, traffic is now running so damn slowly speeding is viewed as a recreational opportunity
No matter, at the end of this month the Ministry of Love will have talks with the Ministry of Truth about tougher fixed penalty punishments for people speeding on Airstrip One.
In a nutshell there will be a two-tier system which lands drivers exceeding the speed limit with a massive six points and a £100 fine for driving at 45mph in a 30mph zone and pro rata up the scale. 94mph would be the threshold on a motorway.
So that’s two strikes and you are out. Banned, without a car, the driver formerly known as employed.
Angry? I’ve just bitten the postman.
Please, please can the powers of enforcement leave us alone and get on with what they do best. Shooting innocent Brazilians.
Sorry, must go now and wipe the foam off my lapels.

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