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Hm, for 57 bucks, you don't really get much in supermarket, these days...
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When I saw the image of the MG Extender I thought it was a joke. A pickup truck wearing emblems of an old British sports car outfit but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
In 2016 MG ended production in England and relocated to China, under the ownership of Chinese company SAIC Motor. And now it’s pretty much exclusively turning out mass-appeal cars. So with that in mind, it’s a little less of a stretch to imagine the MG emblem in the grille of a pickup truck.
That pickup’s not an original MG production though, it’s a re-badge of the Maxus T70, another SAIC Motor brand.
The main reason that those American style trucks have become so prolific in the UK is down to tax. Company car tax to be more specific. In my role as a manager I had a top of the range Audi, the taxman took a painful bite out of my salary every month for having such a company car. The truck on the other hand is a commercial vehicle, it's technically a van, no car tax.Ultimately, I'm not really surprised. It seems these days I see a lot of people-carriers, quasi-pickups and jeep-style motors around with all sorts of badges on them you wouldn't expect. The Porsche people-carrier was an odd one.... I believe the market is for the family man who used to have a sports car with one of these brands on it, now needs a family runabout and can't justify the cost of running an extra car for himself, so buys one of these so he can still regard himself as a Porsche / MG / whatever driver. It'll be interesting to see if they put the MG brand on anything in China, or if that's one predominantly for the export market. It does at least look practical, though I suspect like most of these things I see it would be significantly too large for me to feel comfortable driving it.
George Harrison had this to say:The main reason that those American style trucks have become so prolific in the UK is down to tax. Company car tax to be more specific. In my role as a manager I had a top of the range Audi, the taxman took a painful bite out of my salary every month for having such a company car. The truck on the other hand is a commercial vehicle, it's technically a van, no car tax.
There was a time out Seattle way when it wasn’t unusual to see sports cars wearing truck plates parked in commercial vehicle spaces alongside downtown curbs. People found it quite convenient to park in those spaces near the front doors. Truck drivers were rightfully ticked off when they had to put their vehicles in less convenient places because a Mercedes SL was taking up the “truck” zone.The main reason that those American style trucks have become so prolific in the UK is down to tax. Company car tax to be more specific. In my role as a manager I had a top of the range Audi, the taxman took a painful bite out of my salary every month for having such a company car. The truck on the other hand is a commercial vehicle, it's technically a van, no car tax.
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Years ago we had the same USPS delivery driver, and the same UPS driver, and the same FedEx driver, and so on, for each and every delivery by those carriers. We got friendly with them, and them with us. Then, one day, it was as if all of those agencies chose to screw up their own systems, and strangers who barely knew what they were doing were suddenly making deliveries to our house (if they made the delivery at all). Sometimes it seems idiots have taken over the operation of everything on this planet, and nothing goes as it should....How's your internet delivery driver?...