Little Eye On The Provinces

[Efrogwr]

I think that this fits here;

there's a new stationer in Brighton with a range of pens apparently chosen by its "creative curators".

[rogerzilla]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

[Jurek]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

[Kim]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

It may have scope-creeped to become a model in its own right?  Like C-Max did?


(Ob-rant about automobile molishers writing things on their cars that aren't the model name, so that when you try to report them for a parking offence, the DVLA database says no.  We had that with a Mitsubishi Barbarian, which I've since learned is actually a Mitsubishi L200.  You shouldn't have to be a petrilhead to complain about someone blocking a dropped kerb.)

[barakta]

Me thinks Karen and her neighbours shouldn't be driving if they can't park their vehicles on their drives around the abandoned car, there's clearly loads of space and it's not blocking the dropped kerb on either side. They sound like the sort of people who need a huge space and whine a lot.

[Jaded]

The daughter needs to learn how to drive properly too.

[Regulator]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

The copy refers to the car as a Ford Zetec.
My understanding is that Zetec is a type of Ford engine.
No?

It may have scope-creeped to become a model in its own right?  Like C-Max did?


(Ob-rant about automobile molishers writing things on their cars that aren't the model name, so that when you try to report them for a parking offence, the DVLA database says no.  We had that with a Mitsubishi Barbarian, which I've since learned is actually a Mitsubishi L200.  You shouldn't have to be a petrilhead to complain about someone blocking a dropped kerb.)

It is both the name of the engine and a suffix used on the name of the models (e.g. a Ford Fiesta Zetec).

[rogerzilla]

As opposed to the later Duratec, which is a rebadged Mazda MZR engine, Ford once having had a large stake in Mazda.  Ford kept using it after Mazda moved onto more modern engines.

[MattH]

Me thinks Karen and her neighbours shouldn't be driving if they can't park their vehicles on their drives around the abandoned car, there's clearly loads of space and it's not blocking the dropped kerb on either side. They sound like the sort of people who need a huge space and whine a lot.

And they complain that they have to back the car into the driveway, which you should really do anyway so you aren't backing out onto the road.

[Paul]

Car parked on road in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24325971.abandoned-car-can-stay-swindon-street-dvla-rules/

Local Karen is not happy.

She has been left wondering what has happened to the car owner. “Is he or she still on the planet?” said Brenda.

I think we can probably eliminate the rest of the universe from our enquiries, Bren.