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Going back to their roots then, as long as they don't become a subsidiary of British Leyland again
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Interesting update - putting this here as I can't see a general EV thread.
1,000s of ICE cars that have already been paid for are sitting in compounds and cannot be released to customers before new year due to EV mandate
This would explain why sale of ICE cars have been dropping this year.
It's not lack of demand, it's more due to artificial blocks being put on the supply.
No personal thoughts and opinions here - facts are given for your info & education. Have a nice day.
1,000s of ICE cars that have already been paid for are sitting in compounds and cannot be released to customers before new year due to EV mandate
Vertu boss blasts ZEV Mandate as 1000s cannot collect new petrol cars before Christmas – Car Dealer Magazine
Vertu Motors has brand new sold petrol cars stuck in compounds and cannot deliver them to customers in time for Christmas because of the ZEV Mandate, its
cardealermagazine.co.uk
This would explain why sale of ICE cars have been dropping this year.
It's not lack of demand, it's more due to artificial blocks being put on the supply.
No personal thoughts and opinions here - facts are given for your info & education. Have a nice day.
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I think the manufacturers get fined something like 15K per ICE car they sell over their allowed quota, a complete farce!Interesting update - putting this here as I can't see a general EV thread.
1,000s of ICE cars that have already been paid for are sitting in compounds and cannot be released to customers before new year due to EV mandate
Vertu boss blasts ZEV Mandate as 1000s cannot collect new petrol cars before Christmas – Car Dealer Magazine
Vertu Motors has brand new sold petrol cars stuck in compounds and cannot deliver them to customers in time for Christmas because of the ZEV Mandate, itscardealermagazine.co.uk
This would explain why sale of ICE cars have been dropping this year.
It's not lack of demand, it's more due to artificial blocks being put on the supply.
No personal thoughts and opinions here - facts are given for your info & education. Have a nice day.
Madness.
It's the same sort of though process used to build so many cycle lanes in London that the tax paying motorist can't get through
Would that be the tax paying motorists in their Zero rated EV's and diesels in the £30 a year bracket. Or just the ones cluttering up the roads in oversize SUV's they use for dripping their kids off at school and going to the gym, in the higher VED brackets?
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My daughter sells cars for a living….in her words…” if you want proper car its got to be factory order, plenty of EVs for immediate delivery.”Interesting update - putting this here as I can't see a general EV thread.
1,000s of ICE cars that have already been paid for are sitting in compounds and cannot be released to customers before new year due to EV mandate
Vertu boss blasts ZEV Mandate as 1000s cannot collect new petrol cars before Christmas – Car Dealer Magazine
Vertu Motors has brand new sold petrol cars stuck in compounds and cannot deliver them to customers in time for Christmas because of the ZEV Mandate, itscardealermagazine.co.uk
This would explain why sale of ICE cars have been dropping this year.
It's not lack of demand, it's more due to artificial blocks being put on the supply.
No personal thoughts and opinions here - facts are given for your info & education. Have a nice day.
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Speaking of EVs I’d be banned if I wrote what I’m thinking
Elon Musk's Tesla lobbied UK to charge petrol drivers more
Musk's firm backed the government's green stance, despite its maverick chief executive's social media attacks.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Having (briefly!) worked for Vertu - not Virtue, because they have none... The top three words on the wall behind Forrester have no meaning or place in that company, so treat his words as you would from any car salesman.Interesting update - putting this here as I can't see a general EV thread.
1,000s of ICE cars that have already been paid for are sitting in compounds and cannot be released to customers before new year due to EV mandate
Vertu boss blasts ZEV Mandate as 1000s cannot collect new petrol cars before Christmas – Car Dealer Magazine
Vertu Motors has brand new sold petrol cars stuck in compounds and cannot deliver them to customers in time for Christmas because of the ZEV Mandate, itscardealermagazine.co.uk
This would explain why sale of ICE cars have been dropping this year.
It's not lack of demand, it's more due to artificial blocks being put on the supply.
No personal thoughts and opinions here - facts are given for your info & education. Have a nice day.
Although they have positioned themselves mainly in the 'stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap' end of car brands, they do have a lot of used cars to sell, so i'm wondering why he's complaining about margin increase in used cars? The company I work for does a fair bit for Bristol Street Motors (one of Vertu's trading names) with certain brands that they don't have an in-house dealer for and we've seen an increase in throughput in the last few months - and an increase in screen price in the vehicles they bring to us, so unless they're losing out on throughput bonus from the manufacturers, I can't see why he's whining.
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As did the manufacturers at one time, I knew a high up Ford manager in the 80's who was getting a new company car every 6 weeks at one point to get the numbers up.
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Fords biggest single customer used to be its workforce who were given a generous discount on a new car.
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It was the same at Rover, we could get up to 35% off some models, I would buy a car on the scheme, use it for a year then sell it privately for close to what I paid then buy another on discount.
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Middle Offspring is making candles (no I don't understand either). One is labeled jaGUar Miami Pink. We are exchanging chats on what is the traditional smell of the Leaper.
We have narrowed it down to:
Leather, damp carpet underlay, horse hair seat stuffing and EP90
With a hint of Simoniz for the cognoscenti.
We have narrowed it down to:
Leather, damp carpet underlay, horse hair seat stuffing and EP90
With a hint of Simoniz for the cognoscenti.
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Dont forget the stale cigar smoke, if you need any Ill bottle it up and send it down!
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I remember Jools Holland identifying a car smell as being 'Law and Order, 1957 (or something like that)' when sniffing through the partially open window of something like an old Wolesley. Made me smile at the time.
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Dont forget the stale cigar smoke, if you need any Ill bottle it up and send it down!
Don't you dare! Not in my Jaguars.
The boot is also a golf club free zone.
EtA I assume I don't need to add - no food or drink.
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just the leather smell in mine
