First motorway was actually called the Preston by-pass which later became the M6. I also love service stations as I met my wife in one 45 years ago , when the restaurant side was indeed fine dining and the riff raff used the other side that housed the transport café. 70's best era for me as I pretty much achieved everything....left Grammar School and joined the Civil Service , bought my first car a 2 litre Triumph Vitesse convertible with genuine wing mirrors , got married and had our first child. Music , fashion and cars were all awesome back then.....and controversially there were only two sexes 🤣 I remember Reginald Molehusband - PIF (Public Information Films)....the days we parked safely without reversing cameras 👍 Great vlog evoking fond memories of a far better life.....cheers Lee.
Hi there from an Italian Petrolhead 😊! I Just want to say I always watch your videos, very enjoyable, and I really mean it ! And I' d like to add just one thing for the EVangelist: ask yourself why they didn' t put a canopy at your charging point while EVERY gas station has one: so while you are getting wet in the cold waiting an hour or so while recharging, we are perfectly dry and in 5 minutes we go... To me, it looks pretty clear that this is kinda social experiment, to see how far they can push you to do whatever they want... Ciao from Italy ! 😊🇮🇹🇬🇧
People get so cranky because EV ownership is part of their political identity and an expression of their entitlement. That's why showing them their Emperor has no clothes stings so much.
Not always true as many of us are driving EV company cars for income tax savings and/or because our companies only offer EV’s. I’ve saved around £500/month to spend on motorbikes and holidays 👍 I’m really not interested in the green agenda. I’ve have a Tesla Model 3 Long Range company car since August 2021 and 95% of my charging is done overnight at home (3p/mile). Tesla Superchargers work out at around 10-13p/mile, but Ionity and other networks frequently charge double that. Its 300 mile range means I can drive to meetings in Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham etc. without recharging or a quick 15 minute blast whilst I eat my breakfast or lunch. I can drive to London non-stop (not that my bladder will allow that) and then recharge at the hotel overnight. A shorter range EV would be a real pain though. However, once away from the main arterial routes the charging network is poor and Chargeplace Scotland was completely useless when I had a trip up there in July.
@@stevenormington2411 *What is your job & are your neighbors aware of the dangers of you charging that right next to their homes!? Has your house insurance increased!? Doesn't health & safety matter to you?*
You can't really be saving the planet, when you buy food and coffee, every time you charge up. Plus it must be costing a fortune with all the extras you buy while waiting for your car to charge. Keep up the great work 👍 Love you take on EVs. It your opinion. Just tell them that.
You are absolutely right about the old days. I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1976 but even I can tell that ~1980-1995 in the West were THE best time and place in history - already highly advanced and innovative but still with a soul (and a lot more reason than today's woke insanity).
I was in the UK in that time and can attest it was great. But as an owner of Škoda S105 I do see some things in former CZ in the 80's that look good too. I would have liked to experience it.
Lee, if you do a lot of driving in the dark, the orange lenses in those glasses reduce the glare from the oncoming headlight lasers and also reduce fatigue. They were even more effective when we still had powerful sodium street lights which were 100 times brighter than the pathetic LED glowworms that are everywhere now.
Early to mid 90s were the peak of The West, I wish the kids of today could see how amazing they were. It in 1997 when Blair rolled in and our once great nation started to crumble.
When I started driving in the late 60s the mirrors were mounted on the front wings and were therefore called wing mirrors, though you couldn't see much of any use in them! They became much more useful when they mounted them on the doors closer to the driver, making them door mirrors. My mate had wing mirrors on his car and then fitted a mirror on the driver's door, the only problem being that most of what he could then see in the wing mirror was the back of the door mirror!
Noticing the massive sunroof inside of the porsche. Similar to teslas. Looks cool…but is actually horrible in Australia. It’s like being in a self-propelled greenhouse. It ironically translates into increased energy consumption as you need to have the AC on full bore all the time.
How are electric vehicles exempt from the congestion charge, surely emmision and congestion are two different things. You are still taken uproad space as a ICE vehicle.
Let me get this straight. Please someone correct me if my math is wrong. He went from 198 milies-95 miles= 103 miles/33 pounds. 33 pounds=$42 USD. So he got 95 miles for $42? I just bought a gal of gas for $3.00 and can go 95 miles on 4 gallons. This would have cost me $12 USD and taken 5 minutes to fill up. What am I missing?
I made the same calculation on this channel a few weeks ago (from Canada). Clearly, EVs are more expensive, except maybe for maintenance. We’d have to fudge that in. Hard to say but when you add up the added time, clearly this is a problem. I am going to keep an open mind and do a test drive of an electric car to satisfy my curiosity. BTW, New Zealand will start charging a per kilometre tax soon.
Being a lot older than you I remember that there was no M1....yes, if my memory serves me correctly, the first stretch of the M1 was to Watford. I think you're right about service stations, they've definitely changed for the worse. Wing mirrors were, originally found on the wings but they have been attached to the doors for quite a while.
lee that outdoor winter coat and scarf tell a story. in case of range issues you might not be able to use the heater. a bloke in an ICE would be wearing a T shirt
Well considering he forked out about £40k to spec up his £79k Porsche, he certainly didn't bother to get a heat pump fitted (which comes as standard on most EVs) and would negate the issue!
Milkfloats disappeared because the Milk Marketing Board, which controlled milk distribution, was scrapped following deregulation of the milk market in Britain, thus allowing supermarkets to sell milk en masse. About 90% of milkmen lost their jobs.
Its already happening in Holland. We had two tariffs for electricity. Expensive daytime tariff and cheaper nighttime tariff. Just got a letter for the electricity company that the nighttime tariff will be cancelled so there is only the expensive daytime tariff all day. So charging at home at night will be more expensive. The electricity company has seen that the load on the grid at nighttime didn't go down so they make a loss on the cheap tariff. Great.
Porsche are the boys, stunning. My father has an aging boxster which I love. The interior of Lee's Taycan is gorgeous with the dash and seats roof etc like something out of Bladerunner. Its still Petrol all the way for me though I'm afraid
Come on Porsche UK - you give Lee free coffee and biscuits but surely after spending £120k, you can spare him a free Porsche umbrella. Think of all that additional promotion you’d get each time he has to charge up in the rain. You’re Taycan the P@#s if you don’t!
I don’t know much about electric cars but I do know that you have to recharge them. So why would anyone spend £120,000 on an electric car & then spend the next two years whingeing about having to stop & charge it. I mean it’s only Leeds-London I’m sure there are 100’s of electric cars making that journey every week without any hassle. And then complaining about 20mph limits in London when you are crawling along at no more than 5 mph in traffic. Seems like whingeing for the sake of it 😉
You are loved and valued Lee keep well and fit 365 aday you post thank you for all the vids you post godbless you always and the family and the same to all the lovely people on here
hi Lee welcome to 21 Centary .I am 84 year young still cycle on pavement with small wheal . yes bought my first car in 1959 an a 35 Austin for £335 1957 MODEL small car 60 mpg petrol was 4.6 shilling per gallon.not a very good road holder slip in the ice . driven over 40 different cars now i still drive at 84 years a hybrid car does 60 to 70 gallon drive at any speed from 1 miles an hour in traffic james through road up to at 27 mile an hour . seen changes over those years. First went on motor way like mi motorway use to be driving at 70 mph back in 60 s drive all day stopping at filling station at 4/ 11 per gallong fill up NOT A V ERY GOOD SPELLER.
Your comment about growing up in the best era is absolutely spot-on! I am the same age as you and have been thinking that for quite some time now. I personally think that it really started going to pot with the advent and subsequent popularity of social media. So from around 2009/2010. It has only been getting a lot worse since then. God only knows how bad it’s going to be in 50 years time. 😳😳
The M1 opened in 1959 with tthe first main part linking Birmingham to London. The Preston by-pass was opened in 1957 and is officially the UK's first motorway. When Honda started selling motorcycles in the UK, they often used the M1 in the 1960s to road test their motorcycles. A Honda CB77 (305cc) they rode non-stop from Birmingham to London and were amazed how it performed.
Here's another interesting thought... I top-up my diesel car once a week. And it takes a maximum of five minutes per visit... So fifty two times five equals 4.3 hours lost per annum. If I had an electric car and had to charge it the same number of times (which obviously isn't true because I'll have to charge it far more frequently because it hasn't got the same range - but for the sake of this argument - let's say it does) And for the sake of this argument, let's say that I managed to do a massive 50% of the charging on a home charger at night... That still leaves 25 charges on a public charger... and, to be kind, let's say each charge only took thirty minutes.... Twenty five times thirty minutes = 12.5 hours! Plus the hours taken on diversionary driving to find a chosen charger because you can't just pull in at any old petrol station on the roadside... Plus the multitude of hours you waste sitting in a queue waiting to actually get a charge or even find a charger that works... Seriously, that's DAYS of your life destroyed rather than just hours... Assuming your life hasn't been cut short overnight by your Exploding Vehicle self-combusting and taking out your house - along with you in it. 😂
They're waiting for everyone to get an electric vehicle, then they can control you. 🤨 A diesel engine can run off of french-fri oil. A petrol car can practically run off of any flammable gas, or liquid. An electric car is completely dependent on the electrical grid. 🤨
What on earth makes you think a petrol engine can run on any flammable gas or liquid ,you need to give a bit of respect to the engineering that goes into producing a simply fantastic bit of machinery.you put anything into a petrol engine that is not correctly specified your beautiful engine will not last 5 minutes
@@Royboy50 An ICE engine WILL run, on any flammable gas or liquid (I didn't say that it will run well). You probably have to adjust the air-fuel mixture (depending on the type of fuel used), but it certainly will run. What kind of flammable fuel, will an ICE engine NOT run on?
@@kennyfordham6208 you said petrol engine ,you run a petrol on anything other than the correct grade of fuel you will inevitably burn out the valves ,damage the injectors or pump if it’s got a carb old style engine the jets will not atomise so your engine might not last 5 minutes.try it on paint thinners I know someone who did ,valves welded to seats engine seized in minutes ,plus there’s lubrication in petrol to lube the cylinders another potential seizure
they were wing mirrors because they were actually back in the day mounted on the wings and not on the doors :) great video and to be honest the time you spend just waiting on a charge would frustrate me and it is not just the cost of the charge that bothers me but the fact that inevitably you also buy food coffee etc boredom food and getting fatter too :D
Lee, do you remember; 1. The Green Cross Code 2.Charlie Said don't go off with strangers 3. The Formica Ads. 4. Hamlet Cigar Ads 5. Rolf Harris's public info ad encouraging people to learn to swim. 6. The PG Tips with chimpanzees. 7. I'm a Ga🎉noo with a cup of Typhoo. Oh the memories!
On a services station, a six inch Subway breakwich sub cost me £4.95. It was fantastic. In Bexleyheath Broadway, London they tried to charge me for the same £8.95. Mental. Of course i said NO. How the f can motorway services be cheaper!
One possible reason that you have to register an EV with TFL is so they can monitor who goes where . Big brother (Sadiq Cahn) is watching your every move ! & as you just said in the video pay per mile !
Yes I totally agree with you the 70s & 80s was the best but not just for the car's and commercials and TV programs but also for the best singers and groups that appeared back then 🎶😊👍
The coffee shops like Starbucks are missing a trick they should put charging points on the outside of their buildings so people can charge their cars.... and yes pop in for a coffee and bici for 45mins
Lee, I think the Porsche Targa 4 GTS was talking to you..... 🎶🎶🎶"Taking me home, to place where I belong....West Yorkshire, Yorkshire Tea, Take me home, Country roads"
Awwww Lee you hit a nerve with this one I had a Mk11 Capri 1.6xl and a Mk111 Capri 2.0S and you are absolutely spot on. If they had replicated the old one with a modern slant they would have had an absolute winner. Amongst my bikes I've got a modern Triumph Bonneville and it looks like the old Bonneville but it has modern disc brakes with ABS, it has electronic traction control and different rider modes, it has all modern functionality with trip computers and fuel range etc with electronic fuel injection so it is a thoroughly modern bike but it still has all the style of the old one. Norton have done something similar and even Kawasaki have made a modern take on the 1970's Z900 and Z650 and these things sell. A modern Ford Capri would have been amazing but that thing they have made has about as much appeal as my fridge. No infact my fridge is more appealing because it has beer in it.
Just a little Re M1 if you look on the map just north of J16 you will see a bend! My grandfather had it moved as it went throughout is cottage at a place called Whilton Lock. Gospel truth, I have the news paper clipping , saying little man turns the M1. Love the blog Alan
In Australia we had proper restaurants in servo's on the major highways as well . They were run by the servo . We called these servo's Road Houses . These went away in the late 1980's . They are now like they are in the UK . But there are some independent servo's in rural areas that still operate a snack bar .
going up to Yorkshire this weekend, will be a laugh - one of the chargers last time shown was in use and the other didn't work and was in a hotel car park. Took me 7 hours from Berkshire. Sorry I forgot I passed a charging station on the motorway because I couldn't find it and once I did I couldn't go back due to one way traffic..
Good Morning Lee. Your journey from Leeds to London, what a complicated, Stressfull, Headache, Pricey mixture of modern driving and road side Service and Rest up stations. Where has the Joy and Happiness gone now, from becoming a driver and getting your first car. My Mother bought me my first car, it was a Austin Mini Metro City X. I agreed with you Lee about classic vehicles that are being made Electric. It is very Upsetting and Sad that classic vehicles are losing there character, soul, good looks. I would say, that the Design Department was given a cardboard box, and told Design a new EV, from this Cardbox. This is why we have these Square box's with no character and no soul,moving a long the road Wirring away with no Engine Vroooom, Vrooom!!!!. Driving used to be Fun, and you could just get in your car, and just Drive anywhere and see different places. We are having our Freedoms taken away from us, and very soon they will bring in these 20 MPH Limit zones, no doubt. 😢😢😢👎👎👎👎👎⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈
'driving used to be fun' sure but the amount of vehicles on the road has boomed . Car design has evolved for a number of reasons, safety is one of the major ones. There are strict limits on whats acceptable for a road vehicle to try to make them as safe as possible both for the occupants and for those not in the car. Then you need to add aero efficiency. A 1950's car was designed with a completely different ethos. These days the need to reduce drag to increase economy means cars are designed to be smooth and less bumpy. Harking back to the golden age of the Mini Metro against a modern car is some stretch or reality
Lee, those old motorway service cafes were bloody diabolical!! At least you can safely eat the food at Burger King, Kentucky fried Chicken, McDonalds etc. I think you may have swapped your usual specs for a rose-tinted pair!😂
Hi Lee I agree with you about using the BMW umbrella while charging my Porche lol shouldn’t be allowed,even so I wonder why no canopies? Nice front shots through the windshield Watford gap for roads Watford junction for trains take care
I bought a Tesla here in California and am liking it - one thing is that there is a fairly developed infrastructure of charging stations up and down the state. Not so much for other electric vehicles though. Looking forward to having a true full English breakfast when I come to London for a few days in about 3 months. I think your mouth watering videos inspired me to go to get a full English at the source.
Lee, wing mirrors were fitted on the wings of a car….what the Americans would call fenders. All current cars have door mirrors….because they are fitted to the doors.
Wing mirrors were fitted on the wings of older cars and you had to stop and get out to adjust them, but they were a lot easier to see. Manufacturers started fitted them to doors in the early 80s as you could wind your window down to adjust them - but have to move your head to see in them and had a big blind spot just behind the driver. The car in the crossply/radial add you've used has wingmirrors! I still call them wing mirrors!!
That scheme started today where energy companies are paying people not to use electric as the grid is struggling, over a million people have signed up to it, the colder it gets the more they struggle with demand. So let's make things even better and get loads of people to buy EV's and electric hest pumps to heat their homes 😂
Firstly, music is on point again as always Lee! Do love the visits to the Porsche dealer and any 911 or Boxster gets my vote! Great video highlighting the cons of EV ownership. My grandad had one of the first Maestros with the talking dash! And then several Montegos - I remember him battling and swearing at his Montego 2.0HL which had no power steering while manoeuvring into a space in the multi story carpark in St Helier in Jersey 🤣 Next time we visited Jersey he had retired and bought himself a brand new 1990 Volvo 740 estate which had no problem in the same carpark 😂
The first stage of the M1 was from Atherstone to Watford. AC Cobra used to test their cars on it as there was no speed limit! I took part in the slow drive on it to protest at the 70mph limit imposed by Barbra Castle - a non driver!!
Britain's first motorway, the Preston by-pass, opened in 1958. Designed by Lancashire County Council under civil engineer Sir James Drake - regarded as the pioneer of the UK motorway network - it's now part of the M6. The next 10 years saw UK's network expand as hundreds of miles of motorway were built.
Yes you’re right. Speed limits changing every few hundred yards to catch you out, cameras. And around Nottingham, POT HOLES to avoid.. I hate driving now.
Crossply tyre one was a Austin or Morris 1100. Lee i used to live near Mansfield & still work close to Mansfield, those Mansfield people i work with use a different word for going for a wee. Sort of rhymes with kiss
I remember ad for Maxi , main point was that it had seats that could be turned down to form double bed . Ad line went .. Ideal fir young man about to start a family a,
Ok. About the negative comments. The more people suspect they have been wrong, the more angry their reactions. Everyone makes mistakes. Facing up to the bad choice is hard work.
The PSA I remember here in the USA was a cartoon about the dangers of smoking. It showed a man lighting a fuse to light a stick of dynamite using his last match. He then pulled out a cigarette and ended up chasing the fuse to light it and blew himself up. Commercials were much better back then
Good point, no canopy for you EV user lol. Pack an umbrella. And full winter gear, should you be bold enough to travel long distance across Antarctica in one of those, i.e. if the heater stops working = no bueno. lol. Strength! GODspeed.
£13,000 for an electric bike? It just gets funnier by the minute
Wait till January sale
£6k for the porsche bike rack
A rider of an expensive bike was robbed of it at knife-point on our “non motorist” road in our nearby Royal Park… go figure
Jeremy Vine will have you know....😂
A lot of it not even Porsche too… Fox forks, Shimano gears - nothing special. It’s called leveraging the brand… folks and their money eh?
First motorway was actually called the Preston by-pass which later became the M6.
I also love service stations as I met my wife in one 45 years ago , when the restaurant side was indeed fine dining and the riff raff used the other side that housed the transport café.
70's best era for me as I pretty much achieved everything....left Grammar School and joined the Civil Service , bought my first car a 2 litre Triumph Vitesse convertible with genuine wing mirrors , got married and had our first child. Music , fashion and cars were all awesome back then.....and controversially there were only two sexes 🤣
I remember Reginald Molehusband - PIF (Public Information Films)....the days we parked safely without reversing cameras 👍
Great vlog evoking fond memories of a far better life.....cheers Lee.
No cover over an electric car charging station. Love the idea of getting soaked while handling a high voltage cable connected to an electrical car.
Just to rub in the bad choice that EV drivers have made.
When does the cable become live?
Hi there from an Italian Petrolhead 😊! I Just want to say I always watch your videos, very enjoyable, and I really mean it ! And I' d like to add just one thing for the EVangelist: ask yourself why they didn' t put a canopy at your charging point while EVERY gas station has one: so while you are getting wet in the cold waiting an hour or so while recharging, we are perfectly dry and in 5 minutes we go... To me, it looks pretty clear that this is kinda social experiment, to see how far they can push you to do whatever they want... Ciao from Italy ! 😊🇮🇹🇬🇧
People get so cranky because EV ownership is part of their political identity and an expression of their entitlement. That's why showing them their Emperor has no clothes stings so much.
Not always true as many of us are driving EV company cars for income tax savings and/or because our companies only offer EV’s. I’ve saved around £500/month to spend on motorbikes and holidays 👍 I’m really not interested in the green agenda.
I’ve have a Tesla Model 3 Long Range company car since August 2021 and 95% of my charging is done overnight at home (3p/mile). Tesla Superchargers work out at around 10-13p/mile, but Ionity and other networks frequently charge double that. Its 300 mile range means I can drive to meetings in Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham etc. without recharging or a quick 15 minute blast whilst I eat my breakfast or lunch. I can drive to London non-stop (not that my bladder will allow that) and then recharge at the hotel overnight. A shorter range EV would be a real pain though.
However, once away from the main arterial routes the charging network is poor and Chargeplace Scotland was completely useless when I had a trip up there in July.
@@stevenormington2411 *What is your job & are your neighbors aware of the dangers of you charging that right next to their homes!? Has your house insurance increased!? Doesn't health & safety matter to you?*
@@ToyCars2019 EV’s are less likely to catch fire than a ICE.
I also have a ICE convertible and motorcycle, so by no means am I an EVangelist.
@@stevenormington2411 *Can you read & comprehend english? Why avoid the questions!? Answer the questions with relevant responses.*
*Well said. You should see stevenormington response to me, strange isn't it!?👀*
You can't really be saving the planet, when you buy food and coffee, every time you charge up. Plus it must be costing a fortune with all the extras you buy while waiting for your car to charge.
Keep up the great work 👍 Love you take on EVs.
It your opinion. Just tell them that.
Hells bells the EVangelists more salty that Scottish roads in winter. 🥶
Hahaha, brilliant 😂. I’ll have to use that one.
You are absolutely right about the old days. I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1976 but even I can tell that ~1980-1995 in the West were THE best time and place in history - already highly advanced and innovative but still with a soul (and a lot more reason than today's woke insanity).
I was in the UK in that time and can attest it was great. But as an owner of Škoda S105 I do see some things in former CZ in the 80's that look good too. I would have liked to experience it.
I agree Lee…I’m 60 and so glad I grew up when I did
Yes…wing mirrors
I think I am little bit older than you Lee but we must be the only generation in the history of mankind where life is worse than it used to be!
The mere fact just about everything concerning ev's is subsidised should set off red lights all over the place.
An EV takes up the same road space as any other car so why should they be exempt from congestion charging?
Yes, definitely wing mirrors, but then, I am 86 lol. London's a great place, to stay away from!
Lee, if you do a lot of driving in the dark, the orange lenses in those glasses reduce the glare from the oncoming headlight lasers and also reduce fatigue. They were even more effective when we still had powerful sodium street lights which were 100 times brighter than the pathetic LED glowworms that are everywhere now.
Early to mid 90s were the peak of The West, I wish the kids of today could see how amazing they were.
It in 1997 when Blair rolled in and our once great nation started to crumble.
When I started driving in the late 60s the mirrors were mounted on the front wings and were therefore called wing mirrors, though you couldn't see much of any use in them! They became much more useful when they mounted them on the doors closer to the driver, making them door mirrors. My mate had wing mirrors on his car and then fitted a mirror on the driver's door, the only problem being that most of what he could then see in the wing mirror was the back of the door mirror!
If you have a problem with an EV then ask the smug people on "The Fully Charred Show".They have a smug answer for everything.
I don't like that channel full of EV evangelist they don't like you saying bad thing about EV.
Can you imagine charging your car outside in the pouring rain, in your best clothes , with no cover...you can keep your EV mr government
Noticing the massive sunroof inside of the porsche. Similar to teslas. Looks cool…but is actually horrible in Australia. It’s like being in a self-propelled greenhouse. It ironically translates into increased energy consumption as you need to have the AC on full bore all the time.
Glass roof - and it doesn't even open!!
How are electric vehicles exempt from the congestion charge, surely emmision and congestion are two different things. You are still taken uproad space as a ICE vehicle.
Let me get this straight. Please someone correct me if my math is wrong. He went from 198 milies-95 miles= 103 miles/33 pounds. 33 pounds=$42 USD. So he got 95 miles for $42? I just bought a gal of gas for $3.00 and can go 95 miles on 4 gallons. This would have cost me $12 USD and taken 5 minutes to fill up. What am I missing?
You are missing nothing. It's the green climate warriors and stupid politicians who are driving this EV idiocy.
I made the same calculation on this channel a few weeks ago (from Canada). Clearly, EVs are more expensive, except maybe for maintenance. We’d have to fudge that in. Hard to say but when you add up the added time, clearly this is a problem. I am going to keep an open mind and do a test drive of an electric car to satisfy my curiosity. BTW, New Zealand will start charging a per kilometre tax soon.
How much “gas” costs over here?
Being a lot older than you I remember that there was no M1....yes, if my memory serves me correctly, the first stretch of the M1 was to Watford. I think you're right about service stations, they've definitely changed for the worse. Wing mirrors were, originally found on the wings but they have been attached to the doors for quite a while.
13k for that bike, have you asked about a straight swap trade in while you Taycan is still worth 13k.
lee that outdoor winter coat and scarf tell a story. in case of range issues you might not be able to use the heater. a bloke in an ICE would be wearing a T shirt
My thoughts exactly.
Well considering he forked out about £40k to spec up his £79k Porsche, he certainly didn't bother to get a heat pump fitted (which comes as standard on most EVs) and would negate the issue!
Milkfloats disappeared because the Milk Marketing Board, which controlled milk distribution, was scrapped following deregulation of the milk market in Britain, thus allowing supermarkets to sell milk en masse. About 90% of milkmen lost their jobs.
Its already happening in Holland. We had two tariffs for electricity. Expensive daytime tariff and cheaper nighttime tariff. Just got a letter for the electricity company that the nighttime tariff will be cancelled so there is only the expensive daytime tariff all day. So charging at home at night will be more expensive. The electricity company has seen that the load on the grid at nighttime didn't go down so they make a loss on the cheap tariff. Great.
Things were better back in the day.😍 Great video Lee.👏🏻👍
Side view mirrors here in North America Lee and rear view mirror for the one inside.
i have a theory that most EV fires are started by the owners trying to add petrol out of desperation lol
Well, they are idiots buying one, so yeah, I can see that.
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Sounds funny, but also probably the only way Lee will get his money back from that sh1tbox. Either that or a short jail term😅
Porsche are the boys, stunning. My father has an aging boxster which I love. The interior of Lee's Taycan is gorgeous with the dash and seats roof etc like something out of Bladerunner. Its still Petrol all the way for me though I'm afraid
Come on Porsche UK - you give Lee free coffee and biscuits but surely after spending £120k, you can spare him a free Porsche umbrella. Think of all that additional promotion you’d get each time he has to charge up in the rain. You’re Taycan the P@#s if you don’t!
I don’t know much about electric cars but I do know that you have to recharge them. So why would anyone spend £120,000 on an electric car & then spend the next two years whingeing about having to stop & charge it. I mean it’s only Leeds-London I’m sure there are 100’s of electric cars making that journey every week without any hassle. And then complaining about 20mph limits in London when you are crawling along at no more than 5 mph in traffic. Seems like whingeing for the sake of it 😉
Yes wing mirrors, winkers : I was born in 1970 in Carlisle, very similar sayings to you Lee!
You are loved and valued Lee keep well and fit 365 aday you post thank you for all the vids you post godbless you always and the family and the same to all the lovely people on here
Watford Gap and Newport Pagnell were owned by Blue Boar limited I was a Manager for them many moons ago
hi Lee welcome to 21 Centary .I am 84 year young still cycle on pavement with small wheal .
yes bought my first car in 1959 an a 35 Austin for £335 1957 MODEL small car 60 mpg
petrol was 4.6 shilling per gallon.not a very good road holder slip in the ice . driven over 40 different cars now i still drive at 84 years a hybrid car does 60 to 70 gallon drive at any speed from 1 miles an hour in traffic james through road up to at 27 mile an hour .
seen changes over those years. First went on motor way like mi motorway use to be driving at 70 mph back in 60 s drive all day stopping at filling station at 4/ 11 per gallong fill up NOT A V ERY GOOD SPELLER.
The government and sadiq Khan having war on the motorists you’re right Lee it is the beginning of the end for your own personal transportation
Only if the the stupid vote for the stupid
Your comment about growing up in the best era is absolutely spot-on! I am the same age as you and have been thinking that for quite some time now.
I personally think that it really started going to pot with the advent and subsequent popularity of social media. So from around 2009/2010. It has only been getting a lot worse since then. God only knows how bad it’s going to be in 50 years time. 😳😳
It actually makes me sad to know what young people are missing out on. And the mental health problems in the young teens is worryingly high.
But I guess neither you or I will be around to find out!!
No range (or charger) anxiety with my Merc...just over 700 miles on a full tank of stinky diesel! 👍🏼
The M1 opened in 1959 with tthe first main part linking Birmingham to London. The Preston by-pass was opened in 1957 and is officially the UK's first motorway. When Honda started selling motorcycles in the UK, they often used the M1 in the 1960s to road test their motorcycles. A Honda CB77 (305cc) they rode non-stop from Birmingham to London and were amazed how it performed.
I used to pick up cars from Ford in Frog Island and we always stopped at Newport Pagnell. They did a very nice steak cooked to order.
Here's another interesting thought... I top-up my diesel car once a week. And it takes a maximum of five minutes per visit... So fifty two times five equals 4.3 hours lost per annum.
If I had an electric car and had to charge it the same number of times (which obviously isn't true because I'll have to charge it far more frequently because it hasn't got the same range - but for the sake of this argument - let's say it does)
And for the sake of this argument, let's say that I managed to do a massive 50% of the charging on a home charger at night... That still leaves 25 charges on a public charger... and, to be kind, let's say each charge only took thirty minutes.... Twenty five times thirty minutes = 12.5 hours! Plus the hours taken on diversionary driving to find a chosen charger because you can't just pull in at any old petrol station on the roadside... Plus the multitude of hours you waste sitting in a queue waiting to actually get a charge or even find a charger that works...
Seriously, that's DAYS of your life destroyed rather than just hours... Assuming your life hasn't been cut short overnight by your Exploding Vehicle self-combusting and taking out your house - along with you in it. 😂
But think of all those Netflix films you could watch in those many hours (yawn!!)
@richardlewis5316 Actually you might have hit on a good idea... Charging superstations at cinemas?
Lee , Remember the Green Cross man, the best times when people just got on with life and wern’t offended about every little thing.
They're waiting for everyone to get an electric vehicle, then they can control you. 🤨
A diesel engine can run off of french-fri oil.
A petrol car can practically run off of any flammable gas, or liquid.
An electric car is completely dependent on the electrical grid. 🤨
What on earth makes you think a petrol engine can run on any flammable gas or liquid ,you need to give a bit of respect to the engineering that goes into producing a simply fantastic bit of machinery.you put anything into a petrol engine that is not correctly specified your beautiful engine will not last 5 minutes
@@Royboy50 An ICE engine WILL run, on any flammable gas or liquid (I didn't say that it will run well).
You probably have to adjust the air-fuel mixture (depending on the type of fuel used), but it certainly will run.
What kind of flammable fuel, will an ICE engine NOT run on?
@@kennyfordham6208 you said petrol engine ,you run a petrol on anything other than the correct grade of fuel you will inevitably burn out the valves ,damage the injectors or pump if it’s got a carb old style engine the jets will not atomise so your engine might not last 5 minutes.try it on paint thinners I know someone who did ,valves welded to seats engine seized in minutes ,plus there’s lubrication in petrol to lube the cylinders another potential seizure
"free wee, get in!" Need it on a T-shirt Lee😂🤣😂
“The Professionals” would have been an entirely different series with that Ford Capri. 😂
Cowley: get after that car! Bodie: Sorry boss, car's still charging.
@@lparky4409😄
they were wing mirrors because they were actually back in the day mounted on the wings and not on the doors :) great video and to be honest the time you spend just waiting on a charge would frustrate me and it is not just the cost of the charge that bothers me but the fact that inevitably you also buy food coffee etc boredom food and getting fatter too :D
Lee, do you remember;
1. The Green Cross Code
2.Charlie Said don't go off with strangers
3. The Formica Ads.
4. Hamlet Cigar Ads
5. Rolf Harris's public info ad encouraging people to learn to swim.
6. The PG Tips with chimpanzees.
7. I'm a Ga🎉noo with a cup of Typhoo.
Oh the memories!
On a services station, a six inch Subway breakwich sub cost me £4.95. It was fantastic. In Bexleyheath Broadway, London they tried to charge me for the same £8.95. Mental. Of course i said NO. How the f can motorway services be cheaper!
One possible reason that you have to register an EV with TFL is so they can monitor who goes where . Big brother (Sadiq Cahn) is watching your every move ! & as you just said in the video pay per mile !
I remember being in a seedy club in Stockport in the 80s on grab a granny night and saying to myself think once, think twice, think bike!
Yes I totally agree with you the 70s & 80s was the best but not just for the car's and commercials and TV programs but also for the best singers and groups that appeared back then 🎶😊👍
Definitely buddy
The coffee shops like Starbucks are missing a trick they should put charging points on the outside of their buildings so people can charge their cars.... and yes pop in for a coffee and bici for 45mins
Lee, I think the Porsche Targa 4 GTS was talking to you.....
🎶🎶🎶"Taking me home, to place where I belong....West Yorkshire, Yorkshire Tea, Take me home, Country roads"
I've never understood why electric milk floats didn't have any suspension, when it's purpose was to carry hundreds of glass bottles.
Awwww Lee you hit a nerve with this one I had a Mk11 Capri 1.6xl and a Mk111 Capri 2.0S and you are absolutely spot on. If they had replicated the old one with a modern slant they would have had an absolute winner. Amongst my bikes I've got a modern Triumph Bonneville and it looks like the old Bonneville but it has modern disc brakes with ABS, it has electronic traction control and different rider modes, it has all modern functionality with trip computers and fuel range etc with electronic fuel injection so it is a thoroughly modern bike but it still has all the style of the old one. Norton have done something similar and even Kawasaki have made a modern take on the 1970's Z900 and Z650 and these things sell. A modern Ford Capri would have been amazing but that thing they have made has about as much appeal as my fridge. No infact my fridge is more appealing because it has beer in it.
Those 911's with proper engines... Gorgeous! 😍😍😍
s/h 911 ICE prices are falling as fast as the EV ones but don't tell Lee!
Just a little Re M1 if you look on the map just north of J16 you will see a bend! My grandfather had it moved as it went throughout is cottage at a place called Whilton Lock. Gospel truth, I have the news paper clipping , saying little man turns the M1. Love the blog Alan
In Australia we had proper restaurants in servo's on the major highways as well . They were run by the servo . We called these servo's Road Houses . These went away in the late 1980's . They are now like they are in the UK . But there are some independent servo's in rural areas that still operate a snack bar .
It was bad enough when Ford resurrected the Puma. The Mustang Mach E & Capri are an affront to motoring history.
going up to Yorkshire this weekend, will be a laugh - one of the chargers last time shown was in use and the other didn't work and was in a hotel car park. Took me 7 hours from Berkshire. Sorry I forgot I passed a charging station on the motorway because I couldn't find it and once I did I couldn't go back due to one way traffic..
The best car advert ever mafe is Ford's "Everything we is driven by you" TV commercial. Back when car companies weren't afraid of Motorsport!
Definitely Wing Mirrors. I've never heard them being called door mirrors before.
REALLY love your videos and you've convinced me about the pros and cons of EV's. Stan from Allentown, Pennsylvania USA
Hello USA. 👍🏼
I suffer "range anxiety" with my electronic vape , an EV would be the nail in the coffin for me.
Great video. I agree with all you said. Things are still definitely heading downhill - the world has gone bonkers! Thank you Lee.
Congestion charges should be illegal. New Combustion tech is superior to EVs. it cleans the air as it runs...LOL.
back in the late 70s I lived in Leeds and had frequent journeys to North London- It took about three hours because the M1 was empty.
Thanks Lee, good video. I refuse to talk about "electric cars", and call them "electric transport modules". So soulless and dull.
Good Morning Lee. Your journey from Leeds to London, what a complicated, Stressfull, Headache, Pricey mixture of modern driving and road side Service and Rest up stations. Where has the Joy and Happiness gone now, from becoming a driver and getting your first car. My Mother bought me my first car, it was a Austin Mini Metro City X. I agreed with you Lee about classic vehicles that are being made Electric. It is very Upsetting and Sad that classic vehicles are losing there character, soul, good looks. I would say, that the Design Department was given a cardboard box, and told Design a new EV, from this Cardbox. This is why we have these Square box's with no character and no soul,moving a long the road Wirring away with no Engine Vroooom, Vrooom!!!!. Driving used to be Fun, and you could just get in your car, and just Drive anywhere and see different places. We are having our Freedoms taken away from us, and very soon they will bring in these 20 MPH Limit zones, no doubt. 😢😢😢👎👎👎👎👎⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈⛈
'driving used to be fun' sure but the amount of vehicles on the road has boomed .
Car design has evolved for a number of reasons, safety is one of the major ones. There are strict limits on whats acceptable for a road vehicle to try to make them as safe as possible both for the occupants and for those not in the car.
Then you need to add aero efficiency. A 1950's car was designed with a completely different ethos. These days the need to reduce drag to increase economy means cars are designed to be smooth and less bumpy.
Harking back to the golden age of the Mini Metro against a modern car is some stretch or reality
The government makes over 24 billon pounds a year on fuel duty , where do the EVangelists think they’ll get that money from ?
Will change it to electricity duty
Lee, those old motorway service cafes were bloody diabolical!! At least you can safely eat the food at Burger King, Kentucky fried Chicken, McDonalds etc. I think you may have swapped your usual specs for a rose-tinted pair!😂
Hi Lee I agree with you about using the BMW umbrella while charging my Porche lol shouldn’t be allowed,even so I wonder why no canopies? Nice front shots through the windshield Watford gap for roads Watford junction for trains take care
At least at a petrol station you would be under cover.
I bought a Tesla here in California and am liking it - one thing is that there is a fairly developed infrastructure of charging stations up and down the state. Not so much for other electric vehicles though. Looking forward to having a true full English breakfast when I come to London for a few days in about 3 months. I think your mouth watering videos inspired me to go to get a full English at the source.
Hello California.
Lee, wing mirrors were fitted on the wings of a car….what the Americans would call fenders. All current cars have door mirrors….because they are fitted to the doors.
Side view mirrors. Covers all mountings and eventualities!
Wing mirrors were fitted on the wings of older cars and you had to stop and get out to adjust them, but they were a lot easier to see. Manufacturers started fitted them to doors in the early 80s as you could wind your window down to adjust them - but have to move your head to see in them and had a big blind spot just behind the driver. The car in the crossply/radial add you've used has wingmirrors! I still call them wing mirrors!!
That scheme started today where energy companies are paying people not to use electric as the grid is struggling, over a million people have signed up to it, the colder it gets the more they struggle with demand. So let's make things even better and get loads of people to buy EV's and electric hest pumps to heat their homes 😂
Firstly, music is on point again as always Lee! Do love the visits to the Porsche dealer and any 911 or Boxster gets my vote! Great video highlighting the cons of EV ownership. My grandad had one of the first Maestros with the talking dash! And then several Montegos - I remember him battling and swearing at his Montego 2.0HL which had no power steering while manoeuvring into a space in the multi story carpark in St Helier in Jersey 🤣 Next time we visited Jersey he had retired and bought himself a brand new 1990 Volvo 740 estate which had no problem in the same carpark 😂
Apparently Tesla's infrastructure isnt infallible. Beard meats food was having trouble finding a charger. Each one he tried had a problem 😮
I'm a lot older than you; I grew up in the late 40s, 50s, 60s and early in the 70s, all the rules and regs and controls started coming in.
Correct, EVs will price most people out of the driving market, by design. It will cost a fortune to own an EV.
The year of the Blair was when it started.
the first of many WEF puppets
The registration is so that they can get you to agree to them selling your data to 3rd parties, the DVLA doesn't allow that.
DVLA happily sells data to third parties, ParkingEye thieves are a perfect example.
The first stage of the M1 was from Atherstone to Watford. AC Cobra used to test their cars on it as there was no speed limit! I took part in the slow drive on it to protest at the 70mph limit imposed by Barbra Castle - a non driver!!
I keep having combustible conversations about EV batteries with the EVangelists. They called me a liar and an EV battery fire Nutter! How I laughed.
Britain's first motorway, the Preston by-pass, opened in 1958. Designed by Lancashire County Council under civil engineer Sir James Drake - regarded as the pioneer of the UK motorway network - it's now part of the M6. The next 10 years saw UK's network expand as hundreds of miles of motorway were built.
re: the capri, how you re-imagine the sporty coupe of the range into a fuddy duddy 5 door hatchback of the future is beyond my comprehension
Squashed Mini
I think you're right. In my country public transport is a shambles though! Yours is better.
Canopy's for ice vehicles..but not for ev vehicles...😂😂😂😂😂... common sense ????.
Yes you’re right. Speed limits changing every few hundred yards to catch you out, cameras. And around Nottingham, POT HOLES to avoid.. I hate driving now.
"National Express" by Divine Comedy is a great track, especially the verse about the "Jolly hostess"!
That capri made me think of the multipla. But without it's quirky charm
Crossply tyre one was a Austin or Morris 1100.
Lee i used to live near Mansfield & still work close to Mansfield, those Mansfield people i work with use a different word for going for a wee. Sort of rhymes with kiss
I remember ad for Maxi , main point was that it had seats that could be turned down to form double bed . Ad line went .. Ideal fir young man about to start a family a,
Ok. About the negative comments. The more people suspect they have been wrong, the more angry their reactions. Everyone makes mistakes. Facing up to the bad choice is hard work.
Rampant inflation in UK 1pee costs 20p. Gives new meaning to stand and deliver.
The PSA I remember here in the USA was a cartoon about the dangers of smoking. It showed a man lighting a fuse to light a stick of dynamite using his last match. He then pulled out a cigarette and ended up chasing the fuse to light it and blew himself up. Commercials were much better back then
Classic car, bring back the Datsun Cherry Coupe 😁
My first car was a Cherry.
Pile of junk.
@@DwaynePipes thus making it now, a classic pile of junk
Good point, no canopy for you EV user lol. Pack an umbrella. And full winter gear, should you be bold enough to travel long distance across Antarctica in one of those, i.e. if the heater stops working = no bueno. lol. Strength! GODspeed.
Put all modern cars in a giant car park and it would be very hard to tell any of them apart they all look the same