#uk #autos - 8 Cars Nobody Wants — But UK Mechanics Say BUY THEM NOW: Roy Stroud and 3 more

13 August 2026

If you're buying a used car in Britain this year, the best value on any forecourt is the stuff nobody will touch. Cars that cost forty-five grand new, sitting there at seven grand — and not because they're broken. They're cheap because the badge is boring, or the shape went out of fashion, or somebody told you diesel was banned. I'm Roy Stroud: forty-five, twenty-two years in independent workshops in the Midlands, never worked for a dealership in my life. Nobody pays me to defend a design decision, and nobody's paying me to talk any of these cars up either. In this video: eight cars nobody wants — and number one cost SEVENTY GRAND when it was new. None of this is opinion. It's DVSA and MOT failure data, What Car? reliability figures, and what comes through the door of an independent workshop every single week.

#Engines #ReliableCars #CarMaintenance - 10 Engines That REFUSE to Die — And Why They Stopped Making Them: The Sleeper List

15 August 2026

Ten engines that refuse to die, and the real reason they stopped making them. Not one of these engines could be built and sold as a new car in Britain today. Not because they are unsafe, but because none of them would pass modern type approval. That, more than cost or fashion, is why they are gone.

In this video we count down ten engines that were built with margin, and the ones on this list were designed by engineers who assumed the person who bought the car might want to keep it. The Vauxhall Family Two that taught half the country to drive. The Ford Pinto that lived under the bonnet of every Cortina, Capri, Sierra and Transit. The Peugeot and Citroen X U D diesel that farmers and taxi drivers ran into the hundreds of thousands of miles with no electronics involved at all. The Volkswagen one point nine turbo diesel. The Volvo Redblock that routinely passed three hundred thousand miles on its original internals. The B M W M fifty straight six. The Toyota twenty two R that made the Hilux famous. The Ford Zetec. The Mercedes O M six one seven, the million mile engine. And at number one, an engine you could have bought new within the last twenty years.

We also cover what replaced them, and why so many modern engines are being scrapped rather than repaired. Over eight hundred thousand wet belt EcoBoost engines were fitted in the U K alone, more than any other country in Europe, with repair bills running to four and five figures on cars often worth less than the repair.

And we give the other side of the argument a proper hearing. These old engines are dirtier. Air quality in British cities has measurably improved over the same period all this complexity arrived. Modern engines make more power on less fuel. And nostalgia edits out the failures, because for every Redblock at three hundred thousand miles there was a British engine of the same era that was a disaster.

There is practical advice at the end too. How to find out whether the car you are looking at has a belt running in oil, what to listen for from cold, what actually matters in a service history, and where the clean air zone thresholds fall for petrol and diesel.

Sources and status are stated on air at the end of the video: what is confirmed, what is reported but not settled, and what is still developing.

So tell us in the comments. What is under your bonnet, how many miles has it done, and how long have you had it.

#Engines #ReliableCars #CarMaintenance #BritishCars #WetBelt #EcoBoost #ClassicCars #CarAdvice #UKCars #Mechanic

Dealerships Are COLLAPSING — Brits Are Done Paying for Overpriced Junk!

#navy #Iranwar #MiddleEast - USS Abraham Lincoln Conditions Raise Readiness Concerns: Bloomberg Television

15 August 2026

Navy veteran and military journalist Natalie Oliverio joins Bloomberg This Weekend and says reported food, sanitation and communication problems aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln risk undermining sailors’ readiness.

Oliverio explains to hosts Joe Mathieu and Carol Massar that families and lawmakers are demanding answers as the carrier has spent more than 240 consecutive days at sea, while the Pentagon disputes reports portraying conditions aboard the ship as dire.

#News #Reuters #Newsfeed - Wall Street ends lower as investors weigh data, Middle East tensions: Reuters

15 August 2026

US stocks ended lower, with the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq each down less than 0.3%, as chipmaker shares dropped amid concerns about high AI valuations. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #usastocks #wallstreet #dow

#TopNewsStoriesToday #europe #newfeed - Latest news bulletin | August 15th, 2026 – Morning: Euronews

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#interview #ukraine #vance - US THREATENS Zelenskyy — Vance PUSHES Ukraine to END tanker strikes ‪@WorldatStake24‬: War & Politics 24

14 August 2026

Professor Scott Lucas is the founder and editor of the analytical news outlet EA WorldView https://eaworldview.com/

TV hosts Daniel Tkiie ‪@WorldatStake24‬ and Sofia Nazarenko and Scott Lucas, professor of international politics, discussed the duration of Russia's war against Ukraine. US Vice President JD Vance asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to halt attacks on oil tankers linked to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium at Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

The pipeline carries mainly Kazakh oil with companies linked to U.S. investment firms. Ukraine's compliance was partly influenced by President Zelensky's hopes of obtaining another interceptor for Patriot systems or these licenses to produce Patriot missiles.

What is your reaction to this, and could you provide us with wider context of Ukraine's campaign against Russia's oil tankers and this demand from JD Vance's surprise demand, because JD Vance usually hesitated to actively play any kind of role in Ukraine negotiations?

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#us #iran #economy - 'Never been seen before': U.S. threatens ‘economic isolation’ of Iran: CNBC International Live

14 August  2026

The U.S. says it can indefinitely maintain its blockade of Iran, also vowing further economic pressure with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledging measures that have "never been seen before". CNBC's Dan Murphy reports from Abu Dhabi.

#USEconomy #JobsReport #USDebt - Canada and Europe BOOM While USA Economy Collapses - 95% of Americans Can't Afford BASIC Living: House of El

13 August 2026

The stock market is at all-time highs — but the real economy is flashing warning signs everywhere else. Jobs have gone negative, the cost of living is at crisis levels, the yen intervention is fading, and America’s debt machine is becoming harder to finance.

#USEconomy #JobsReport #USDebt

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#usa #DonaldTrump #politics - Trump was ‘played’ by a key ally into fearing for his life | Scott Lucas: The Trump Report

13 August 2026

Professor Scott Lucas was back for The Week That Was, discussing Trump’s bizarre Air Force One escape, his dwindling options in Iran, warning signs for the midterms, the Reflecting Pool saga and Putin’s latest moves on Ukraine.