Yellowtail

Airbus has sales and assembly/manufacturing in the US so there is likely no reason Thailand could not deal directly with Airbus in the US to buy new or used aircraft.

The CX-30 is the same platform as the Gen 4 Mazda 3, yes?

I'm 188 and my boy is a bit taller. We'll have a look at the show. Not sure if I want to move him into the 'tuna and get something new for me or just get something for him. If the Gen 4 Swift is at the show and I fit in it okay, I might get that for me...

I have a Fortuna and the power and fuel consumption (~10km/l) was disappointing just coming from a 3L Highlander. The size did not bother me out in the province, but it bugs a little in Bangkok. I still like the interior and the way it looks, sits and drives. Wife loves it, but she quit driving when we moved to Bangkok....

I like the look of these, if you don't mind me asking, how tall are you, how is the headroom and how do you like getting in and out?

Depends on the church, but yeah.

Attractive young people playing it the water, oh the humanity!

Talk him into the depositing the 800k in the bank or tell him to spend the 15-30k a year on an agent. To be clear, the 800K is not "locked up", you can take it out any time you want, you just will not be able to use it to renew the visa.

Airbus has (or at least had) a final assembly plant in the US. As to why they would buy from the US likely has to do with trade deficits.

I'm a old man and I love Songkan, absolute best time to be in Bangkok. I doubt there will be any flight disruptions. In Bangkok it's April 13, 14 & 15 and the absolute best place to stay for the holiday is Novotel Siam Square.

Well we'll know by the end of the month. If there going to market them here, they'll have one at the Motor Show. A "new" GWM dealership going up in a shuttered Mitsubishi dealership a few blocks from the house.

I believe a majority of Thais oppose liberalization of alcohol, e-cigarettes, cannabis and gambling.

What we do know is that his family is left begging for money to pay his not very large hospital bills, and his children will probably only have a few newspaper articles to remember him by. When I was 31 I was in a hospital with no insurance and ended up on disability for five years as a result of my running around the country getting hammered doing my best to impregnate all the women I could. I think that was pretty selfish, and I did not have a wife and children. That you do not see the guy's behavior as selfish leads me to understand a lot about the kind of man you are as well.

He did not even have it in the bank, or (again) his family would not have to be begging. He was also (apparently) unemployed. It seems selfish me, it doesn't to you, whatever.

He can't pay a 10K hospital bill and left his family begging. I remember my dad going on vacation without us once, it was for a three day fishing trip with half a dozen other neighbor men.

It is worth noting that generally, more ground clearance means a higher center of gravity.

I feel for the guy, but clearly coming to Thailand for holiday with virtually no money and five kids at home seems a bit selfish. I wish him all the best.

Another vote for visiting the Motor Show. Book the Novotel Impact, stay a night or two, free parking and free shuttle that drops you at the door. The shuttle also make the rounds to some of the other shops and eats around there as well. About 2K a night and the hotel is pretty decent. Hoping to see the Gen 3 Fortuner, the new Land Rover, the new Crown and the new Gen 4 Swift....

Not including being clipped and them not stopping, I've been involved in two accidents with motorcycles in Thailand, both in Bangkok, The first was on Sukhumvit between On Nut and the Trad Road headed downtown. I was stopped in the rightmost lane, and my front wheels were cocked sharply to the left. Apparently, dudes' foot-peg clipped my front wheel and he went down hard and took quite a tumble. His bike was a little bent, and my wheel had a gash in it, but he was pretty much okay and we went our separate ways. Another time, I was driving on a Lat Krabang soi out by the ring road at night, and as I was making a right turn into a parking lot, dude with no lights and his old lady on the back tried to pass me on the right. He clipped my front fender and went down. I had a scrape on the fender, he, his wife and the bike were skinned up pretty good, but the bike started and again, we parted ways. Unless there is significant damage or injury, there is not a lot of point in contacting the insurance, Once on I was crawling in heavy traffic on Lat Krabang and a bike clipped my mirror and kept going. The mirror insert popped out of the mirror assembly and landed in the road. Another guy on a bike stopped and picked up the mirror insert and handed it to me through the window. I popped back in and has been fine since.

Unfortunately, it's likely too late for anyone to make a life-changing difference in this young man's life.

But at least in the US, I believe it is much more likely a claim would be filed. No one is pushing their bike over to a shop that straightens it out for 200 baht. I do not put much stock in one guys estimate, but the only reason I asked was that all the beds were full of motorcyclists.

It is my position that only a small percentage of motorcycle accidents result in claims and or hospitalization. When I live in Kabinburi, a doctor in the emergency room told me 90% of emergency room patients were motorcycle.

Do motorcyclists in Thailand account for 73% or 80% of all deaths? And by "all deaths" I assume you mean vehicular deaths, yes?

I still do not understand this from your previous post: "Motorcyclists are part of a group of road users referred to as "vulnerable". In Thailand they account for 80% of ALL deaths... motorcyclists account for about 73% of all deaths." I assume only a small percentage of motorcycle accidents are even reported in Thailand.