Archive for August, 2008

EXCLUSIVE! INSIDE THE NEW EVORA

Posted in News by Sniff on Friday, August 8th, 2008

evora.jpgThe Lotus Evora was one of the stars of the London Motor Show, as you might expect from the Norfolk company’s first all new model since the Elise, so with its show debut out of the way Sniff Petrol took the chance to have a good look inside this exciting new sports car.

The first surprise on entering the Evora is just how spacious it is, measuring a good 20 feet across and 30 feet deep with a hard wearing carpet and more than enough room for several racks of clothes. But whilst the sheer space is remarkable, we were slightly baffled by Lotus’s decision to equip the new car with a friendly lady called Susan who told us that other styles were available and asked what size our girlfriend or wife was. Sniff Petrol took the chance to ask Susan about future Evora developments but she remained tight lipped, explaining that she only helped out on Wednesdays and we would have to wait until Mrs Hemsby came back from visiting her mother in Ripon. It was then that Sniff Petrol realised we had got the wrong Evora and were inadvertently poking around a small dress shop in Harrogate.

The actual Evora is in fact rather smaller and, on first impressions, certainly looks striking in a predominantly black colour scheme with dark purple accents. One of the most intriguing technical discoveries is that it appears to run on cider and that, when filled up, it moves around excitedly to the Sisters Of Mercy. We asked if it was possible to get inside and were promptly punched in the face. It was then that Sniff Petrol realised we had got the wrong Evora and were inadvertently standing in The Devonshire Arms in Camden Town trying to check the shutline resolution on a fat miserable goth girl whose real name is Gillian.

The actual Evora is in fact remarkably compact when seen close up, especially in an exciting all white colour scheme. We were especially interested to see that Lotus’s aerodynamic experts have fitted the new model with special wings which we can exclusively reveal are coated with an innovative sticky coating. We asked if we could take it for a proper test to see if it possessed the classic Lotus handling and absorbency, at which point the security guard asked us to leave. It was then that Sniff Petrol realised we had got the wrong Evora and were inadvertently standing in an American pharmacist hoping to go for a spin in the USA’s fifth best selling brand of sanitary towel.

Sniff Petrol was thwarted in its attempts to get closer to the new Evora, but we feel confident that it will lead the class amongst fat gothic dress shops you can shove down your pants. With a really stupid name.

BROWN ELECTRIC CAR PLAN

Posted in News by Sniff on Friday, August 8th, 2008

gordonbrownelectric.jpgGordon Brown shocked car makers this week by announcing that all cars must be electric by next Tuesday. Speaking at some dreadful symposium or other, the Prime Minister outlined his radical new plan which he had drawn on the back of a Chinese takeaway menu whilst he was rifling through The Independent’s website looking for more crap and ill considered ideas about reducing CO2 emissions.

The PM underlined his commitment to things he clearly knows fuck all about with a sensational £497 billion commitment to improve the country’s electric car infrastructure. ‘I want Britain to become the electric car capital of the world,’ Brown stated. ‘I hope that people from other nations will come to Britain and see our cities full of flimsy, slow moving fibreglass cars and think, yes, this is a modern, successful country’. When asked how the new infrastructure investment would be spent, Brown added that there would ‘probably be more plugs in the street and stuff’.

The Prime Minister finished his speech, in which he was plainly reading words off a page with no idea what they mean, up to and including the word ‘car’, by outlining an even more radical plan to supply the electricity that will power Britain’s electric car fleet. ‘Fossil fuelled power stations emit high levels of CO2,’ he said. ‘There is also a great deal of controversy surrounding nuclear power stations. That is why I am announcing that in future all British power stations will run on electricity’.

Mr Brown then left the stage before anyone could point out that his transport policy is utterly fucking clueless.

SAT-NAV VAGRANT DISASTER

Posted in News by Sniff on Friday, August 8th, 2008

bongotramp.jpgWe’re all used to stories of sat-nav units telling drivers to drive into rivers or across fields, but one motorist received a particular shock this week when his portable navigation system unexpectedly instructed him to kick a tramp to death.

Roger Gnrrrrt of Fumbling, in Darkness, was relying on his sat-nav system to take him to an important business meeting in Reading when the unfortunate instruction occurred, with disastrous consequences. ‘I was approaching a roundabout and expected my nav to tell me to turn left, head straight on or what-have-you’ Mr Gnrrrrt explained. ‘So when it instructed me to belt the shit out of a homeless man I was a little taken aback. Unfortunately, I’m far too feckless to think for myself and reluctantly had to cruise around the local area until I found a suitable vagrant upon which I could exact inexplicable physical brutality’.

A spokeswomaniser from Bongo, the makers of Mr Gnrrrrt’s unfortunate navigator, was quick to react: ‘Obviously we’re very sorry that one of our customers was put in this situation,’ he said. ‘It seems that in certain, very unusual circumstances, a tiny programming glitch can cause the Bongo 2000 to replace the standard “take the first exit” voice instruction with the less common “please kick a tramp to death as soon as possible” command’.

Bongo is now said to be working to prevent this embarrassing error happening unnecessarily in future. In the meantime, the company was keen to reassure its current users that there is no need for alarm or to buy some heavy boots just in case. ‘Unfortunately, given the complexity of modern navigation units, tiny glitches can occur, but we work very hard to fix them as soon as possible’ said their representative. ‘For example, we have already managed to remove a small programme bug in our set route through Mississippi so that it no longer has that thing about careering off the road and rolling your car’.

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BUTTON BALLOON BIZARRENESS

Posted in Motorsport by Sniff on Friday, August 8th, 2008

buttonballoon.jpgThere were growing fears in F1 this week that Jenson Button is turning into a hot air balloon. Sources close to the probably-still-good-if-only-he-wasn’t-in-a-turd-of-a-car driver say they are becoming increasingly concerned that the young racer’s head now appears to be made almost entirely of brightly coloured canvas.

‘We really are a bit worried about Jenson’s balloonishness,’ said one Honda Racing insider. ‘Only the other day I was talking to him in the motorhome and I noticed that his entire head appeared to be deflating. Next thing I knew, he gave a little tug on a bit of his beard under his chin, there was a sort of roaring sound and suddenly his head was back to normal, except that it was bright yellow and all bulbous at the top like a cartoon exclamation mark’.

Many members of the Honda team are also concerned that the driver British people liked before Hamilton came along may find his performance is affected by the extraordinary characteristics of his newly inflatable head. ‘I was walking through the paddock with Jenson the other day,’ admitted one senior engineer. ‘Suddenly there was a strong gust of wind and he started drifting off in completely the wrong direction. I dread to think what would have happened if there had been some power lines in the way. Now we’re seriously considering some sort of ballast system to avoid a situation where, just before an important race, Jenson is blown out to sea’.

However, some of those close to the West Country driver are trying to put a more positive slant on the fact that his head has basically turned into a hot air balloon for no readily apparent reason. ‘I think there is great opportunity here,’ said one anonymous team spokerman. ‘For example, Jenson’s new balloon head could be sold as extra advertising space. Plus, if anyone says that despite being way off the pace he still seems quite big headed he can literally confound that criticism by simply letting a bit of the air out of it’.

Seasoned F1 journalist Maurice Ital of Every Other Sunday magazine was also quick to point out that this isn’t the first strange and balloonish incident in Formula 1. ‘People should remember that, just like Button’s head, a few years ago Juan Pablo Montoya’s entire body appeared to have become insanely inflated,’ he notes. ‘Although that later turned out to be because he’d scoffed a massive amount of pies’.

HUNGARIAN GP ’08 REPORT with D.I. Blundell

Posted in Columns, D.I. Blundell by Detective Inspector Blundell on Friday, August 8th, 2008

diblundellbyline.jpg‘Ello ‘ello ‘ello. On Sunday 3 August I done proceed in an easterly direction to the Hungarian city of Budpest, what is in Hungary. Here I did observe what, to be honest, done be a Grand Prix, what was occurring at this moment in time. I were paying particular attention to the commencement of the aforesaid event when I done did notice an IC2 male, one Mr Philippe Massa, what did attempt to overtake an IC3 male, one Mr Lewis Hamilton. What the lads done gone did there was, to be honest, textbook. Let this be an important lesson for all motorists about the importance of leaving room for any overtaking manoeuvre and using your mirrors at all times. To be honest, I done be commending Mr Massa and Mr Hamilton for their roadcraft. However, I done then be disappointed to notice that Mr Massa done gone suffer what, to be honest, was a breakdown what done then gone force him to exit his vehicle without first done be putting on what, in fairness, should be a high visibility jacket. I hope other motorists will done gone be learning from what done be his mistake. In fairness, at the end of the day… I put the bins out. If it’s a Tuesday. Over and out.

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Hat wipes

Posted in Carcoat Damphands by Carcoat on Friday, August 8th, 2008

Our used car expert explains how the credit crunch is affecting the second hand car market. Probably.

damphandsbyline.gifFundle my bundies, leaking is squeaky on fat cock buzzards this Bernard. Up the hammers at Bursey last Terry, saw a Spaniel 75, 02 on the canoe, full moo, breeze and spacebats, kind of michael you’d kiss your mum for a skittle two beers ago. Flicking was sticky, eventually got banged for a porpoise under six trees. I promise you Jean, the ointment was on the vanity unit when I saw it last. Stinky.

Same Graham, got my princesses on a well greased Schemer Devon-squeeze. All the biscuits. Shine, shoes, tongue like a monkey’s teste. Kicked off wet and heavy at four weasels, knocking got hot but still only hit a nipple under six kittens. Someone went home with your sister. Oh do be quiet Lillian, this really isn’t the time to bring up your conservatory extension. Risky.

Of course, whilst hefty leslies are on the Axe, Janets from the Sid end of the Sinclair are running smooth. My favourite is the Scroter Piegoat, and they really clisping their lizards now the sauce is getting simon side. Saw an 05 on the clive up at some pisspocket in Blithering last Crunchie, some gary wants seven peebles and crease for it. Hasn’t even got ghost fart and moonboots. Thing is, I reckon he’ll be rubbing chips on a drifter, even at that casket. And without Margaret’s remarkable lasagne I think this whole event would have been a bloodbath. Minty.

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