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MpgTips News: February 2009

Time to break out the snow chains and the ice-scraper as February brings heavy snowfall to the UK. People in the South of England seem to be getting the worst of the snow.  Lucky devils!  call me irresponsible, but I love the snow.  I’ve had some of my best and worst driving experiences with snow on the ground. The worst being, letting the handbrake off my car in a steep driveway and it immediately sliding sideways into a skip!  The best experiences being finding an empty car park and using for a skid pan and just generally driving everywhere sideways!  It’s enormous fun and I thoroughly recommend it to blow the cobwebs off any car, although it won’t help to improve your fuel economy in the slightest.   On a more sombre note, car maker Honda has suspended production at its swindon plant for four months, until they clear their growing surplus of brand new cars which are currently gathering dust, as UK banks keep their stranglehold on new car finance , and ultimately the average UK motorist’s ability to get car credit.  Workers at Honda’s swindon plant will receive full wages for the first two months and around half their normal wage for the second two months.  The news is quite a surprise with Honda being one of the stronger car manufacturer’s, it just goes to show that they’re all feeling the pinch at the moment.  Looking on the bright side of things, at least they didn’t actually sack anyone?

The good news is that fuel prices appear to have levelled out for the time being,  let’s just turn our heater’s up and see how long the cheap fuel will last.

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