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[Lizzie Zoom]

No one has mentioned it yet, but Ford are set to close their Bridgend engine plant in 2020, after 40 years in service.

Sign of the times and things to come, with electric engines now firmly on the scene?

1700 jobs are going

[Sir Tigger KC]

Very sad for Bridgend and comes hard on the heels of the Welsh government cancelling the M4 relief scheme at Newport, where the motorway becomes a car park twice a day during rush hour. 

I'm sure the newts on the Gwent levels are happy though. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

No one has mentioned it yet, but Ford are set to close their Bridgend engine plant in 2020, after 40 years in service.

Sign of the times and things to come, with electric engines now firmly on the scene?

1700 jobs are going

In Autocar magazine this week....

According to professor Ernst of Liege University it takes 435000 miles for an EV  using a 60 kWh battery before it is 'greener' than the average petrol car regarding it's Co2 footprint.

It looks like if it's not diesel cars killing black babies in Africa, it's the 4 door milk float.

[Lizzie Zoom]

No one has mentioned it yet, but Ford are set to close their Bridgend engine plant in 2020, after 40 years in service.

Sign of the times and things to come, with electric engines now firmly on the scene?

1700 jobs are going

In Autocar magazine this week....

According to professor Ernst of Liege University it takes 435000 miles for an EV  using a 60 kWh battery before it is 'greener' than the average petrol car regarding it's Co2 footprint.

It looks like if it's not diesel cars killing black babies in Africa, it's the 4 door milk float.

That makes me feel less guilty about intending to keep my 3.2, 21 mpg, lovely Omega Opti until the government of the day agrees to fully fund a Tesla for me

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

No one has mentioned it yet, but Ford are set to close their Bridgend engine plant in 2020, after 40 years in service.

Sign of the times and things to come, with electric engines now firmly on the scene?

1700 jobs are going

In Autocar magazine this week....

According to professor Ernst of Liege University it takes 435000 miles for an EV  using a 60 kWh battery before it is 'greener' than the average petrol car regarding it's Co2 footprint.

It looks like if it's not diesel cars killing black babies in Africa, it's the 4 door milk float.

That makes me feel less guilty about intending to keep my 3.2, 21 mpg, lovely Omega Opti until the government of the day agrees to fully fund a Tesla for me

I would say your chance of any govenrment being so benevolent is 'vanishingly slim',.......

Perhaps when hell decides to freeze over.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Very sad for Bridgend and comes hard on the heels of the Welsh government cancelling the M4 relief scheme at Newport, where the motorway becomes a car park twice a day during rush hour. 

I'm sure the newts on the Gwent levels are happy though. 

Yes, I heard that myself Sir Tigger.  It is a troublesome decision and with the Ford announcement it makes me wonder what else is in the pipeline.  Llanwern steel works has been under threat in the past, so with the problems of that industry................!!

I hope sincerely for South Wales and it's peoples that no other jobs are going to be lost on mass.  They suffered in the Valleys enough when the coal mines closed (my business duties covered that area during the miners strike and after)  so any more bad news would be terrible.  

[2boxerdogs]

The day we have to give up petrol cars will be the day I give up driving, no way on earth will I have an electric car if I'm still fit & able will revert to a pushbike , probably be pushing up daisies before the demise of petrol though.😀

[Sir Tigger KC]

The day we have to give up petrol cars will be the day I give up driving, no way on earth will I have an electric car if I'm still fit & able will revert to a pushbike , probably be pushing up daisies before the demise of petrol though.😀

One less on the roads then.  .                                                           

[Varche]

Had a look on an expat forum today and predictably the closure was slated as

“Yet another closure due to Brexit, will the Quitlings never learn.”

I read elsewhere that 9 out of every 10 Jaguar Land Rover vehicles being produced is a diesel. If that is true it is a bit of bad forward planning.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Yes I think that JLR have done that classic British thing of achieving success and then sitting back on their laurels while the world moves on around them. 

[dave the builder]

I was reading an article the other day saying that Ford car sales in the USA are piss poor and they are considering a future merger with GM  ( who's USA car sales are good ) to make them competitive with PSA etc and Jap cars

[Lizzie Zoom]

I was reading an article the other day saying that Ford car sales in the USA are piss poor and they are considering a future merger with GM  ( who's USA car sales are good ) to make them competitive with PSA etc and Jap cars

That is not surprising as when you go to the States now it is Japanese and German that you notice more than any others.  When I first went in 1990 American cars were everywhere, but not now.

[2boxerdogs]

I was reading an article the other day saying that Ford car sales in the USA are piss poor and they are considering a future merger with GM  ( who's USA car sales are good ) to make them competitive with PSA etc and Jap cars

That is not surprising as when you go to the States now it is Japanese and German that you notice more than any others.  When I first went in 1990 American cars were everywhere, but not now.

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Had several Japanese vehicles & two German vehicles all been ultra reliable & problem free probably got a lot to do with their popularity.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I was reading an article the other day saying that Ford car sales in the USA are piss poor and they are considering a future merger with GM  ( who's USA car sales are good ) to make them competitive with PSA etc and Jap cars

That is not surprising as when you go to the States now it is Japanese and German that you notice more than any others.  When I first went in 1990 American cars were everywhere, but not now.

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Had several Japanese vehicles & two German vehicles all been ultra reliable & problem free probably got a lot to do with their popularity.

Well when American cars do about 20 gpm and ride on leaf springs is it any wonder?   

[Viral_Jim]

In Autocar magazine this week....

According to professor Ernst of Liege University it takes 435000 miles for an EV  using a 60 kWh battery before it is 'greener' than the average petrol car regarding it's Co2 footprint.

It looks like if it's not diesel cars killing black babies in Africa, it's the 4 door milk float.

As is (almost) always the case, that article conveniently ignores the upstream CO2 produced to get petrol to the pumps. Their maths only works assuming that you use (a) the manufacturer's stated mpg and (b) that the petrol fairies take the oil out the ground, refine it and deliver it by magic. 

It also ignores the increasing proportion of green energy being produced by the European grid. And that there's more than just CO2 coming out of tail pipes, particularly the diesels.