Posts Tagged ‘economy’
As I drove my beloved 159 into a certain supermarket petrol station yesterday evening I noticed that the price of petrol has lept up again since I last popped her full of fuel. The government’s Fuel Escalator has kicked in even though the price of crude oil is still only just above $51.
So why are [...]
While the turmoil of the economy throws prices up and down like so many juggling balls by a clown on a trampoline, it’s unfortunate that because of the shits in exchange rates, the UK prices for new Fords are set to rise. It’s due to the fact that most of Ford’s costs are incurred in [...]
It used to be some guy called Raymond, but now everybody loves economy. Fuel economy, that is, and everybody being car buyers. Well, that’s what the car makers believe as they’re lining up to push new, increasingly economical versions of their cars onto the roads.
A new version of the already perfect-for-the-city, new Fiat 500 yesterday [...]
You know, it’s strange. Initially I wasn’t too fussed about it but now the Superb is fast becoming one of my favourite new cars. While – as someone who grew up in the time of the box-like lumps they used to call Skodas – is kind of strange, isn’t that surprising given the current economical [...]
This is a strange one this – the “R” word that keeps getting flogged by every media outlet, used as an excuse by pretty much everyone for any little failure in business is now being used in relation to gaming and the XBox 360.
Microsoft have announced that from the second quarter of this year they’ll [...]
Now this is what I call great news: Skoda have re-started their 5 day working week at their Czech factories.
They had proposed a four-day working week for the first half of 2009 but thanks to an increase in demand for new Skoda cars, particularly in Germany, it’s back to work the the thouasands of workers [...]
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