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Honda to close UK factory
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Originally posted by AtW View PostHe’s got some gravitational pull for sure...Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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Originally posted by Zigenare View PostYep, what he lacks in gravitas he surely makes up for with gravity!Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWin is a win, innit?Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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British Car Industry
So all the FOREIGN car companies are pulling out of the UK. Why should we be surprised that when markets get tough, and economics change that they should withdraw to their safe places. Where is the British Car Industry? Oh yes we sold it to the Germans. If we in the UK want a car industry then we in the UK are going to have to recreate the British Car Industry and marque. That way when the going gets tough the industry won't just up sticks and retreat to its safe place. The closure of the foreign car industry in the UK was probably always on the cards from the getgo, from the moment the factories were opened in a blaze of glory and subsidies. If there is one lesson to be learned from this is that we cannot rely on foreign industry to supply our manufacturing base. We have to do it ourselves as a country.
Lets take a leaf out of the Chinese book and learn from them. Their car industry was started from nothing. Yes I know its a different regime, but we in the UK have some of the best automotive brains and innovators. Take a look at motorsport. The Chinese themselves have an automotive RnD centre in the UK. All it needs is a bit of vision and probably some support from the government ( not like they haven't supported car manufacturing within the UK in recent history for the Japanese)
So what do I call this new UK car brand?
Well, yesterday a colleague of mine was having some home made lasagne and Greek STYLE yoghurt. It could be call Greek yoghurt because it wasn't made in Greece. So why not make a Ford STYLE Focus, its not a Ford because its not made by Ford but it is in the "STYLE" of a Ford, or a VW Style Golf! (its kind of a take on the Chinese approach to developing an automotive brand)
Seriously , I believe it can be done (not the FORD Style, VW STY:LE thing) a British Automotive car brand, and if the UK wants a UK automotive industry that will not get up and leave then the UK will have to create its own. We could call it "Peoples Cars" (PC for short) ( I think the branding "Car of the People" and every one driving around in CoP cars is probably not politically correct how ever much fun it might seem)Comment
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Originally posted by Yorkie62 View PostSo all the FOREIGN car companies are pulling out of the UK. Why should we be surprised that when markets get tough, and economics change that they should withdraw to their safe places. Where is the British Car Industry? Oh yes we sold it to the Germans. If we in the UK want a car industry then we in the UK are going to have to recreate the British Car Industry and marque. That way when the going gets tough the industry won't just up sticks and retreat to its safe place. The closure of the foreign car industry in the UK was probably always on the cards from the getgo, from the moment the factories were opened in a blaze of glory and subsidies. If there is one lesson to be learned from this is that we cannot rely on foreign industry to supply our manufacturing base. We have to do it ourselves as a country.
Lets take a leaf out of the Chinese book and learn from them. Their car industry was started from nothing. Yes I know its a different regime, but we in the UK have some of the best automotive brains and innovators. Take a look at motorsport. The Chinese themselves have an automotive RnD centre in the UK. All it needs is a bit of vision and probably some support from the government ( not like they haven't supported car manufacturing within the UK in recent history for the Japanese)
So what do I call this new UK car brand?
Well, yesterday a colleague of mine was having some home made lasagne and Greek STYLE yoghurt. It could be call Greek yoghurt because it wasn't made in Greece. So why not make a Ford STYLE Focus, its not a Ford because its not made by Ford but it is in the "STYLE" of a Ford, or a VW Style Golf! (its kind of a take on the Chinese approach to developing an automotive brand)
Seriously , I believe it can be done (not the FORD Style, VW STY:LE thing) a British Automotive car brand, and if the UK wants a UK automotive industry that will not get up and leave then the UK will have to create its own. We could call it "Peoples Cars" (PC for short) ( I think the branding "Car of the People" and every one driving around in CoP cars is probably not politically correct how ever much fun it might seem)
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by Yorkie62 View PostSeriously , I believe it can be done (not the FORD Style, VW STY:LE thing) a British Automotive car brand, and if the UK wants a UK automotive industry that will not get up and leave then the UK will have to create its own. We could call it "Peoples Cars" (PC for short) ( I think the branding "Car of the People" and every one driving around in CoP cars is probably not politically correct how ever much fun it might seem)
As for the rest of your rant, you glossed over the critical bits. We had a car industry. It was sold off to foreign investors. The same way we had an energy industry, but it's mostly owned by foreigners. Pretty much everything good that this country used to do has been sold off so that the shareholders make a tidy profit. The engineers and designers of tomorrow have been priced out of going to university so that only the Tory Elite can afford to do it now. The ancients on here complain about millennials. Any of the oldies on here who went to university in the 60s/70s/80s did not pay tuition fees and probably even received grants for attending. Now a student will leave uni with a £30k+ loan - which isn't the bar bill, but is to cover the tuition fees.
Of course, it's not your fault. It never is. Always blame someone else. That's what Vote Leave was all about.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostWhat's wrong with calling something the Car of the People, it's just a translation from German of the words "volks" (meaning people) and "wagen" (meaning car)?Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post...
Now a student will leave uni with a £30k+ loan - which isn't the bar bill, but is to cover the tuition fees.
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2. If that wasn't the size of your bar bill then you weren't drinking hard enough.
3. I went to uni between 1980 and 84 on a full grant ( my father died when I was 14)
4 my daughter went to uni between 2010 and 2013 and had her student fees paid as me and her mother were divorced and she lived with her mother which meant my income wasn't considered. So her loan isn't that big.
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Originally posted by Yorkie62 View PostSo all the FOREIGN car companies are pulling out of the UK. Why should we be surprised that when markets get tough, and economics change that they should withdraw to their safe places. Where is the British Car Industry? Oh yes we sold it to the Germans. If we in the UK want a car industry then we in the UK are going to have to recreate the British Car Industry and marque.
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