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Archive for November 23rd, 2006
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| Local Volvo drivers continue to circulate the roundabout despite having run out of petrol |
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Apparently highway engineers in Coventry have given the Magic Roundabout a new spin. They have built a roundabout from which no legal exit is possible as each road leading off is signposted ‘No Left Turn’. This has greatly perplexed local drivers, many of whom have been reported missing by their anxious families. On the other hand, a local tyre company is said to be delighted with a recent upturn in trade, albeit for only two tyres at a time. Young Volvo passengers are being offerred counselling for what is described as Mulberry Bush Syndrome.
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By means of computer-linked number-plate recognition cameras, the Met has recently captured around 1,300 scrotes driving about in east London without insurance. In extreme cases this has led to the confiscation of the scrote’s car, leaving the unfortunate victim to catch the Number 31 bus or to waste time in Hackney nick just because he is wanted for other offences.
I think the time has come to find a permanent solution to the problem of uninsured drivers, and the potential losses they face. Clearly it is not cheap to run an old BMW, and what with the cost of blow, Sky TV, Stella and so on, I think it unfair to expect these drivers to fork out for insurance as well: Giros can be stretched only so far. Is there no way that benefit can be increased so that these poor, underprivileged people can enjoy free motoring as well as having their rent paid? What kind of society is it that forces the less fortunate to resort to driving cars illegally, or to have to borrow cars without consent, merely to induldge in the simple pleasure of driving to the pub?
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I came across this last night - it’s the latest incarnation of the Austin Seven. Billed as “…combining the core features of the Wrangler with the sophistication of the Grand Cherokee’, it will appear on Chrylser’s stand at the Detroit Auto Show in January.
Called the Jeep Trailhawk, it is derived from Wrangler architecture, which makes it a direct descendent of Herbert Austin’s famous Seven. Not a lot of people know this, but when the Seven failed to make many sales in the USA, Austin of America morphed into American-owned Bantam Cars, which sold reworked versions of the Seven with a modified manifold to avoid paying a licence fee to Herbert Austin. The owner of Bantam got wind of the US military’s search for a light reconnaissance vehicle and persuaded them to try his little runabout. A succession of modifications, including a larger engine and four-wheel drive, eventually gave rise to what became known as the GP or Jeep. The rest, as they say, is history.
A number of other Austin Seven derivatives found their way into other manufacturers’ line-ups. Anyone care to name them?
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