Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
allroad one said:
SpeckledJim said:
allroad one said:
Why is vauxhall the council brand of choice?
Because Vauxhall have carefully cultivated that market.
For Vauxhall, being British is more important than being anything else (regardless of the American truth) and that is for good reason.
This plays to the weird and fascinating phenomenon whereby the less a country has delivered for an individual, the more patriotic that individual is likely to be.
You could swap over the last 3 seconds of most Vauxhall and Carling adverts and not notice the difference.
allroad one said:
Vauxhall is so cheap that if the front badge falls off there is a opel badge template underneath. Seen for myself!
In fairness, every badge-engineered car has that sort of thing. Right up to £1,000,000.But I agree, Vauuxhall has completely conquered that niche.
Other brands had a good go, but without a credible veneer of britishness they never stood a chance.
See Chinese MG for the current challenger.
wince.
SpeckledJim said:
By sponsoring the England team, conjuring up the VXR label, importing the Monaro, creating the (actually very well thought-out) Zafira, and advertising themselves like this:
For Vauxhall, being British is more important than being anything else (regardless of the American truth) and that is for good reason.
This plays to the weird and fascinating phenomenon whereby the less a country has delivered for an individual, the more patriotic that individual is likely to be.
You could swap over the last 3 seconds of most Vauxhall and Carling adverts and not notice the difference.
Visit any sink council estate and you'll see just as many beat up mk1 and mk2 Focuses and Galaxys as you do Astra mk4s and Zafiras. It's quite simple really : they're both cheap as chips to buy and run and are generally reliable - exactly what people on low income need.For Vauxhall, being British is more important than being anything else (regardless of the American truth) and that is for good reason.
This plays to the weird and fascinating phenomenon whereby the less a country has delivered for an individual, the more patriotic that individual is likely to be.
You could swap over the last 3 seconds of most Vauxhall and Carling adverts and not notice the difference.
All that jazz said:
SpeckledJim said:
By sponsoring the England team, conjuring up the VXR label, importing the Monaro, creating the (actually very well thought-out) Zafira, and advertising themselves like this:
For Vauxhall, being British is more important than being anything else (regardless of the American truth) and that is for good reason.
This plays to the weird and fascinating phenomenon whereby the less a country has delivered for an individual, the more patriotic that individual is likely to be.
You could swap over the last 3 seconds of most Vauxhall and Carling adverts and not notice the difference.
Visit any sink council estate and you'll see just as many beat up mk1 and mk2 Focuses and Galaxys as you do Astra mk4s and Zafiras. It's quite simple really : they're both cheap as chips to buy and run and are generally reliable - exactly what people on low income need.For Vauxhall, being British is more important than being anything else (regardless of the American truth) and that is for good reason.
This plays to the weird and fascinating phenomenon whereby the less a country has delivered for an individual, the more patriotic that individual is likely to be.
You could swap over the last 3 seconds of most Vauxhall and Carling adverts and not notice the difference.
Someone with a TV smaller than their bookshelf is extremely unlikely to buy a Vauxhall.
Ford (the smaller, more ordinary ones at least) are actually pretty classless.
Mondeos and Galaxies, I take your point. Nearly as bad as Vectras and Zafiras.
(I jest, of course. Nothing, but nothing, is anywhere near as bad as Vectras and Zafiras.)
oceanview said:
StevieBee said:
oceanview said:
Having seen lots of the Russian roadrage/crash videos , how much is the average car insurance policy in Russia?
A lot...unless you have a dash cam to prove who was at fault; hence the proliferation of the videos.Insurance is not as stringently enforced as it is here so many of the poorer motorist simply don't bother and if they get caught, a little something towards the police christmas ball tends to bring discussions to an end. However, there is a rapidly growing proliferation of nice and also expensive cars. These tend to be driven by younger drivers who have been properly taught and relative to the majority, have at least a modicum of road sense sharing roads with people who have never had a lesson, don't hold a licence and are not insured....but are willing and seemingly able to pay their way out of sticky situations. Dash cams can reduce insurance premiums - though I'm not sure how that counters someone with no insurance barrelling into the side of your new RS4.
Willy Nilly said:
XFDreamer said:
I flew back form Ibiza with Easyjet last weekend. We were bussed out to the aircraft in the usual way but as we got to the plane we noticed the Guardia Civil (friendly Spanish policemen) had a passenger from the incoming flight face down on the tarmac in handcuffs.
The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Council. The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Another reason PH is becoming a place I visit less and less.
XFDreamer said:
I flew back form Ibiza with Easyjet last weekend. We were bussed out to the aircraft in the usual way but as we got to the plane we noticed the Guardia Civil (friendly Spanish policemen) had a passenger from the incoming flight face down on the tarmac in handcuffs.
The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Usual policy is to cancel the return leg if they're outbound. Airline may or may not blacklist them at its discretion. Up to the pax to buy another ticket with someone else. Airlines don't share stuff like this (Human Rights, Data Protection etc), they only have systems for security risk stuff which is managed through the appropriate governmental agencies. Plenty of people flying on every airline with a criminal record, not just LoCo's.The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
XFDreamer said:
Willy Nilly said:
XFDreamer said:
I flew back form Ibiza with Easyjet last weekend. We were bussed out to the aircraft in the usual way but as we got to the plane we noticed the Guardia Civil (friendly Spanish policemen) had a passenger from the incoming flight face down on the tarmac in handcuffs.
The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Council. The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Another reason PH is becoming a place I visit less and less.
Speed 3 said:
XFDreamer said:
I flew back form Ibiza with Easyjet last weekend. We were bussed out to the aircraft in the usual way but as we got to the plane we noticed the Guardia Civil (friendly Spanish policemen) had a passenger from the incoming flight face down on the tarmac in handcuffs.
The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
Usual policy is to cancel the return leg if they're outbound. Airline may or may not blacklist them at its discretion. Up to the pax to buy another ticket with someone else. Airlines don't share stuff like this (Human Rights, Data Protection etc), they only have systems for security risk stuff which is managed through the appropriate governmental agencies. Plenty of people flying on every airline with a criminal record, not just LoCo's.The captain came over to the bus and explained this chap had had too much to drink on the flight and had started a fight and asked if we minded staying on the bus for a short while so the air crew could give witness statements.
My question is how would this chap get home after the police had released him? I can't imagine Easyjet would want to fly him again and surely they would pass on their knowledge of him to other airlines.
Maybe he's walking home?
mattdaniels said:
All that jazz said:
Why do emergency vehicles beep their horn just before they activate the siren and again just after they switch it off? What's that all about? 
You can switch the siren into standby mode and then turn it on and off by tapping the vehicle horn.On a flight in to Gatwick last week they were checking passports as we got off the aircraft. This was at a normal gate so we still had to go through passport control in the airport. Do they occasionally do that as a random spot check or would they have been looking for someone in particular?
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