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  What type of van should I get driving farming equipment around? 18 Apr 2018 (Ask HJ)
  I'm starting a courier business for farming equipment. What is your advice regarding the size of van I should get? I'm unsure of which would be more viable...
• Citroen C4 Picasso 7-st (2007 - ) - - 10 day hire car review 12 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  Been back a couple of weeks now, but thought was worth the thread. Had a C4 Grand Picasso as hire car for holiday in Spain with wife, 2 daughter and parents, although parents drove down in their Volvo had this as was reasonable cheap (EUR 300) and meant only having to take one car if all went out together. No idea on engine or spec as had no manual or badges, but engine was very pokey diesel, so must have been the 2 litre (EGS box gave it away too) and colour changing screen, climate, cruise control made me think upper range model.
• VIRGIN CARS: V'rg'n on the ridiculous 13 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  More apologies and promises that they would be monitoring the situation personally [rather than waiting for their Logica implemented customer management system to send out automated standard letters and responses]. A day after they were supposed to collect the car from Spain, I called Virgin to ensure this had happened. As expected, IT HADN'T, due to severe weather on the french-spanish border, and they wouldn't know until a week later. Since I had only had a holding reply from Virgin Management, I called their offices and was told that the lady dealing with the situation was away...
• Veg oil in your tank 13 Jul 2001 (Forum)
  " So or similar the comments of colleague, friends, experts sounded, when I told recently of my project: Hamburg south Spain and back. With my klapprigen gulf turbo-Diesel year of construction 1984. 428000 kilometers on the clock. The engine nevertheless one quarter million run. And in the tank nothing different one than food oil.
• Darwin Awards 22 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  Paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death. 3rd RUNNER-UP Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him. 2nd RUNNER-UP "Man loses face at party." A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue.
• Living, driving and surviving in Kuwait 6 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  Jordan thinks I should be buying cheap second-hand luxury and sports cars here and selling them in Spain. Even after I pay the import duty, he says, I should be able to realize pleasant 5-figure sums per sale, become a rich man and thus definitely get a girlfriend. ?It beats teaching,? he concludes gloomily by way of summing-up. ?
• Scam 21 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  These were the e-mails I had: hello iam intrested in buying your BMW 320i Coupe Auto for my daugther who is getting married in southafrica soon,i live in the us but iam presently in spain with my wife,so you will e mail me the total cost with shipping cost to south africa and the payment is going to be made in america personal check,so please mail me if this will be acceptable because it is going to be send to you by my personal assistance presently in the us.it is needed as soon as possible. from terry smith [terrysmithbest2003@yahoo.com] Then: hello thanks for your response,the check will be made in american dollars but it seems you said it will take upto 6 to 8 weeks for it to clear over there,no problem on this but i want you to assist me in paying the shipper by nextweek when i send the check to you so that they can start arrangement from thier end immediately so as to meet up with the purpose of buying the car,so you can contact them on medlinkworldwideshippingagency@yahoo.com for discussion with them Dodgy shipping company too!