We've got a 1.6 diesel one and are very happy with it.
We've only had to remove the seats a couple of times during Uni moves.

It'll cruise at 85mph 5 up and normally gives around 55mpg. Apart from a clutch cylinder failing it's been very reliable over the 6 or 7 years since we bought it.

Took the T2 for a run out before the place is rammed with tourists who'd be a bit upset at the smokescreen it'd leave as it burns.
Still no fire though, it must have a guardian angel.

Some of it will be down to their accounting policies, for example how they allocate R&D costs etc. to vehicles and over what time frame. The key is cashflow, as Boeing is now finding out for a different reason. It's more complicated than that but this should be enough to trigger a nap for Mario....

The EU is one thing given the Commission dictats but I expect the US shareholders to push back hard on their domestic manufacturers.

Yet solar powered ones would be ideal.

There must be some sort of catch in all this EVangelism (sorry).

You have to love crap ideas like hub centre steering. The amount of effort burned on solving a problem that doesn't exist. cf bloody wankel engines. But it's not a crap idea. Telescopic forks are a shit idea. The reason shit ideas survive despite everything is bloody conservative customers and bean...

MoT pass for the MGB but they still have it to look into the 'flickering' oil pressure when warm. Normally it's steady at 65-70 but has recently started rapidly flicking between 75 and 80. I suspect a stuck oil pressure relief valve but am no expert. It's 50 years old now so is entitled to have a bi...

mercrocker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:30 pm Is it me or is that first bonnet distorted?

Looks like it to me as well but my MG one looks like that when opened even though it's a good fit when closed.

That explains why their homelands are shit heaps, anyone who can count has left.