Monsta®

You look after it and keep it tidy, don't admit to anyone that you know who the owner is and after fourteen years it's yours

why whould i want it ? a recked car park and half an acre of 5 foot weeds surely them oaps in the cottages next to it have complained, they complained about the white cherry tree and got it chopped down! i liked that tree!

Tesco have already taken over the covenant on the car park, probably in order to adjust it so a 2 or 3 hour only free car park will be provided for their patrons exclusively! That leads to problems with parking for the law courts as well as VPG, not to mention anyone using that car park who works on or uses Front Street!

wey the law courts have there own car park and the offenders all park infront off the courts, as for those who work on the front street theres a car park behind tsb! and everyone else theres a loading bay outside tescos or they can run the risk of a wheel clamp by parking in elliots garage!

If it was decent why'd they close it and eventually bulldoze the place?

dont know but some businessman bought it in order to open a granny sanctuary. only its a complete waste land don't they at least have to keep the place tidy?

i know its got nowt to do with england but portugals nani is out pity its not ronanldo

does any one have any news on the terrier site as those weeds are 4 to 5 foot tall now! why pull a decent pub down if your not going to do anything?

best launch yet!

so all this arguement against electric cars is coming from someone who gets the bus!

what happen to the st2?

wey if england divint win maybe i can!

have you made a league yet?

ok i did the codes is 60780

Here`s a better one here

You have to register again because you can`t sign in with your Predict the premiership details.

have you made a league yet?

whats new about the 2010 focus then? looks like all the others!

look heres the 2008 focus st

Hang on, the two of you have just defeated your own argument; you're openly admitting that the Nissan Leaf, one of the most advanced and modern of the new breed of electric cars, is utterly useless for anyone wanting to travel any distance. In suggesting that it's better to use an alternative you're pointing out its mighty limitations.

nobody has said its useless at long distances only put forward alternatives i.e trains and a car share idea!

besides, I don't want to take the train, because I've just spent £23,000 on a car, and for £23,000 it should be able to do the job without me having to take the train. When i get to my destination I want to be able to get in my car and visit brighton, pop over to Goodwood for some racing, call on relatives in Maidstone, etc; I don't want to be limited by having to use the train.

who in reality drives from northumberland to brighton every day?

Battery replacement is, in an ideal world, a great idea, but the same limitations apply - you can only go so far on one set of batteries, and you will have to have these battery replacement centres every few miles as not everybody is starting from the same place and heading for the same destination. Monsta, batteries last 100 miles, but not at a safe and steady 60mph on the motorway they don't, and no matter how much you try to dress it up, battery technology isn't advancing at the rate of 'twofold every couple of months' - as already pointed out in 60 years battery technology, as needed for cars, is simply static.

eh i think you'll find it does check out the nissan site it rated for 100miles range doing 90mph!

Furthermore, you again point out the limitations in electric cars design as you state, quite correctly, it is designed for urban transport; it might have passed your notice that all but a very few (the Tesla etc) are designed for urban transport, because - quite simply - of the problems i've highlighted. I've already stated electric cars are great as 'city cars' - but who other than the wealthy looking for a plaything and an 'I'm green, I am' sign is going to pay £23,000 for an urban car? As you said, take the train, or the bus.

I'm interested to see how many Nissan Leaf's are sold in the UK in the next twelve months - i'll bet yo any money its in two figures, no more than a hundred.

funny two figures! in the U.S theres already a 50,000 long waiting list!

Looking at the associated costs involved with putting on this event maybe we 'win' by coming 'last'?

what like the episode of father ted! only if they had sang "my lovely horse" they'd probably have won!

ASDA dont sell branded items?

My Sony Bravia 42" has been running no problem now for over 3 years...

Also seen brands like

Kenwood

HP/Compaq

Epsom

Samsung

Toshiba

Philips

All the major gaming consoles: XBox360, Wii, Playstation PSP

Which brands exactly would you like?

what i just said dont buy t.vs dvd players with either onn or asda written on them!

suppose these are "expensive red herrings that represent a technological blind alley"

Greenfingers original post

just thought it might help!

asda electrics are ok if you need a cheap kettle or toaster i would not recommend there t.vs or dvd players as there cheap rubbish. if you want a t.v or anything else over £50 buy something with a recognisable trade mark! like they say you only get what you pay for! (unless its at a knocked down bargain price or it fell off the back of a lorry!!)

That's just it - you've hit the nail on the head; to achieve practicality you would have to have millions of these 'pod points' across the UK, one every few miles on every road, or you're going to have electric cars stopping left, right and centre just short of their recharging point. How much is it going to cost to install them everywhere? What if you want to take your family for picnic in the wilds of the Yorkshire Dales - is there going to be one at every remote beauty spot? Looking at the various blurbs for these systems they claim to be free - how can that be so? Who is going to pay for the electricity - the power fairies? I want to drive down to London to visit my sister - i'm going to have to stop every 80 miles and wait half an hour while my car is charged; given that at 60mph, on the motorway, it's going to take me five hours (that's at constant speed) to start with, and that 60mph isn't going to give me 100 miles from my shiny new £23grand Nissan, i'm probably looking at charging every 60 miles at least. That's four charges, that's an extra couple of hours on my travelling time, and that's optimistic. Seven hours to drive to London in £23,000 brand new car - you do see the problem, surely?

I understand that you see a shiny new petrol free future - and granted, that would be brilliant - but until these simple, practical problems have been ironed out the electric car is suitable only for short journeys into and out of towns and cities - great as that is, it's a limited market that is unlikely to extend to many moe than a handful of Nissan leaf's being sold to some wealthy people who can afford the extravagance. This isn't me not wanting electric cars to be successful, it's me being extremely practical and seeing that it's a long way in teh future.

no i cant see any problems! if you want to go to london catch a train as londons already to congested! and you dont have to stop every 60miles the battery last the full 100miles . as me and mr darn have been saying battery technology is advancing and you will soon not have to stop and recharge as for the leaf it is designed as urban transport.

and another thing stopping 4 times aint so bad as the electic is free and your suppost to have a break every 2 hours anyway!

http://www.carrentals.co.uk/blog/how-long-should-you-drive-before-you-take-a-break.html

its a bit much moaning over a 1p

Word is, ASDA like the size of all the Netto stores, as they are small enough to accommodate a decent sized "Living" store, which will sell only non-food items, and therefore not monopolise the towns as they would if they were food stores.

Good news for bedlington if that is the case, an ASDA Living store there would surely be a good idea... wouldn't it monsta?

NO asda clothes are rubbish! i've bought them before and they shrink in the washer! like primark tat only a bit more pricey!

Great, so that's £23,000 for a car that goes 100 miles on a full tank. have you thought about this - what if you want to go somewhere that's 60 miles away? How do you get home?

recharge it at one of the proposed charging points being installed across the u.k!

http://www.pod-point.com/?gclid=CJKZmbLBiaICFRUslAod9iFYVw

a 30min charge gives you 80% battery

RIO Could Be out before it starts due to a training ground knee injury! fingas crossed he's ok

Rio will now miss the world cup gerrard will now take over as captain has gerrard ever been captain before?

Electric cars, as we know them now, as the Nissan Leaf and it's compatriots are, ar simply vanity toys for rich people to say 'look at me, i'm saving the planet' when, in fact, they're not. That's not an opinion, it's a fact, and it's borne out entirely by the £28,000 price tag of a 21st century electric, state of the art Nissan that gets you a hundred miles.

£28,350 minus £5000 incentive!

http://www.nissan.co...es/leaf/pricing

RIO Could Be out before it starts due to a training ground knee injury! fingas crossed he's ok