josephbloggs

Wow, you have really escalated this. From a personal opinion that Seatran are good into guff about “reasoned argument”, “worthless anecdotes” etc. You are obviously a very bored orc lonely man with not much going on in your life to pick on something so trivial. i didn’t make any great claims that should be challenged, just said in my experience Seatran operate the safest vessels. Run along and play somewhere. Or get a hobby. Oh and you didn’t counter with anything, no reasoned argument, nothing. So really not sure what your point is. I have better things to do so unless you have a different experience to discuss I’m out. Yawn.

I am in Laos this week. Actually surprised how many EVs here - nowhere near as many as Bangkok but way more than I expected. And a few Vinfasts around. Dreadful cars. They will only sell in Thailand if they are ridiculously cheap otherwise they have no chance.

Like all opinions it is based on my experience. No, I haven’t personally done a safety survey of all Thai ferries in operation, but I have used many and I maintain that Seatran probably operates the safest vessels in Thailand. what’s your issue with that opinion? and then tell me your opinion and exactly what evidence your opinion is based on, thank you.

Hua Hin has moved to Rayong now? The Thaiger can't even get the basic geography of its own country right. Appalling.

Yes. 400g is about $100k.

Seatrans are excellent, probably the safest and most reputable ferry company in Thailand (not that that's saying much). Full of safety equipment and regularly inspected.

By agreeing with @scorecard when he said KL's system had an excellent safety and service record, saying "Because this is Thailand and not KL." BTW workers were killed during construction of the lines in KL. Last year there was a report that many lifts and escalators were inoperative due to lack of maintenance. But yeah, KL good, Bangkok bad.

Yawn. Not sticking up for the Thai monorails as these incidents are unacceptable but to claim the KL version is impeccable is nonsense. Take off your anti Thai blinkers and research before you post your tripe. Around the opening time a wheel fell off (sound familiar?) and fell on the head of a pedestrian. Could have killed them. In 2005 a tyre exploded and entered the carriage inuring passengers. In 2012 a train broke down and all electrical power was cut and trapped people inside for over two hours! People had to smash windows in order to breathe. Later that same year it happened again although the AC still worked so people could breathe while waiting for rescue. In 2015 a wheel caught fire while in a station. In 2020 another wheel caught fire and caused serious damage to the train. Last year another tyre exploded and caught fire, passengers had to be evacuated and the fire brigade called to deal with it. But year, KL good, Bangkok bad. Honestly it takes 30 seconds to Google to see if something is true before you blindly agree just because it is critical of Thailand, it is so so very boring.

Does that "performance motors" sticker make it go faster?

Yes indeed. I was talking to a friend last week who has one and he says it is absolutely unbelievable.

Audi are offering 1.2-1.5m baht off the list price of the e-Tron GT during the show. It's still massively overpriced even then, but first time to see a European maker joining the big discount party.

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So no one has ever lost control of an extremely high performance ICE? Should I show some videos of ICE cars losing it and crashing? My God you are a bore. What are you trying to prove? I don't get it.

To be fair, the "/" symbol is mathematically standard for "divided by" and has been for as long as I remember on any computer. Same as "*" is "timesed by". 5/10 = 0.5.

Asia books is long gone. They used to have a big store which is the one you refer to, now they have a tiny one but nothing of interest (and even that may be gone now, been a few weeks since I was in Emporium).

Nitpicking but it was Thonglor, not Ekamai. Thonglor soi 13 which runs from Thonglor to Soi 49. Agree it didn't have a lot going for it although they did spend some money on the interior.

Yesterday I was got on a red express train and it had four carriages of seating. At the same time one pulled in opposite and it had four carriages of seating, so they have definitely converted all of them and think it's been done for a few months. Thinking about it I haven't noticed a toilet on any express train for a while so maybe they also took them out at the same time (therefore no more loud clang).

Vinfast = 0. They are not selling at the show, merely testing the waters and putting their vehicles out there for a later launch in Thailand.

Well done for explaining it to minimum wage workers who are just doing their jobs and have absolutely no influence on the laws. What a joy you must be.

Yeah, welcome to "The Thaiger". And accompanied by a photo of prostitutes and mongers - what has that got to do with the regulations on alcohol sales?

You obviously have a problem reading. EV owners (and others) have said countless times, and I will put it in capitals so it might sink in, IF YOU HAVE NO WAY OF CHARGING AT HOME THEN AN EV IS PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU. Get it? No one is disputing that, reading the same pointless arguments over and over is really boring. Why keep bringing up these ridiculous "what if" scenarios??

Ah, the old "what ifs". Gotta love them.

Seriously, you have a 400km - 500km range, who runs out of juice? Petrol or EV it doesn't matter, who is that stupid? Guessing it must have happened to you a lot.

Only the 197th time these questions have come up in these threads, and always from anti-Evers, it is never a genuine question. (Not saying that's true of you but it is true of everyone else who has asked). Hertz, and it was an incredibly stupid business decision to buy 100,000 Teslas. They are a rental company, people generally rent in towns they are visiting and don't live in. If you're staying in hotels or travelling it is likely you don't have your own charger so an EV is an inconvenience. When you're renting you just want to take off and go where you want to go. As said a gazillion times, EV's work if you have home charging. If you don't have home charging then they are not really fit for you. EV rentals just don't make sense for most people.

Can you try paragraphs? No one can read this.