My verdict on the big story of the day.

Well I've studied this very carefully - I watched it at least twice...


And...

It is definitely a 2018 Jaguar XJ.

Heartwarming or Heartbreaking?

This 1993 Ford Mustang has been sold twice...

…to pay for cancer treatments.

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News see it as a heart-warming story of how Wesley Ryan's children bought back the much-loved car that he was forced to sell to finance his wife's cancer treatment.

Fox News, the pro-Trump, anti-Obamacare propaganda outlet - I can't call them a News Network because that would imply serious journalism.

The story originally came from mySA, a San Antonio based news site.

And it is a nice story.

Apart from the cancer.

And the being forced to sell off expensive items when faced with cancer.

And the fact that they have bought the car off someone where "the seller was letting it go because her own mother had contracted ovarian cancer and they needed the money for treatment."

Thank God for the NHS.

Delivered by Air

There's an air carrier called Norfolk Air:

There's another called Airtransit: 

Meanwhile, in Norfolk, a Transit got airborne.

The dashcam footage shows it was driven by an idiot.  It's very good:

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That's 2x68 because I have now seen 2 68 Reg cars.

After a prolonged period of seeing none.

I saw the first one on Sunday and I was composing a post in my head walking home from the shops this evening about how I had seen "a 68 Reg":

...when I spotted another one.

 

Incidentally, A68 REG is a valid number (it would have been issued in 1983 or 1984) - it just doesn't belong to anybody.

 

Not even somebody called Reg.

 

The two 68 cars I did spot were both Renault SUV thingies. Nothing exciting.

 

They were different colours so it wasn't the same car twice.

 

Maybe it means that Renault are the best company for sorting out their emissions levels.

 

After all, it was never going to be Volkswagen.

No 68 Reg

Today is the 5th of September 2018.

On the 1st, the new 68 registration plates came out.

I've not seen any yet.  Although it took me until the 3rd to notice that I hadn't noticed any.

I've been actively looking since then.

I've seen lots of 18s but no 68s.

So I was surprised to see this Autocar article claiming that "New-car registrations surge in August to highest in years."  Then I read it properly with my brain in gear and everything makes sense.

Of course, it said August - not September.  August being the last month of the 18 plates.

For those non-British people and those British people with lives, this tries to explain the current system of number plate registrations.

According to the Autocar article, "New WLTP (World harmonised Light vehicles Test Procedure) regulations, which determine that all cars manufactured after 1 September this year must have been put under a stricter emissions testing regime"

so... "car makers have been registering cars in bulk before the new rules coming into place. This stock can still be sold on forecourts for another year."

Meanwhile, I'm still looking forward to next year: