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Well done (excuse the pun). Oil is - for now - still important, and it keeps my cars running. Doesn't change the reality of EVs being superior vehicles though.

Sticker-tastic! And glad to see your daughter is taking her safety seriously with the helmet, very nice. I think you could do with a spirit level next time you apply stickers though....

Bit of a silly and pointless dig there about affording them. Not going to get in to a pissing contest but I have owned much higher performance cars than any BMW. And driven (rented) many more much higher performance supercars. Happy with my choices. No doubt the M3's and M5's of this world are great cars but they've never really floated my boat. Maybe because they didn't have stickers on them, not sure. But your bog standard BMWs - 320, 325, 330, 520 etc do absolutely nothing for me, and I have test driven them in the past before choosing something else. And their diesels are appalling.

Too late to edit, but for @ExpatOilWorker if you smashed your BMW, bent the wheels, had significant body panel damage and A pillar damage would you have to wait for parts? More than 32 days? How long would your "Performance Motors" stickers take to be reprinted? That is obviously the most important thing, as a BMW is nothing without the stickers....

Maybe, maybe not. I recently had an accident in my wife's Honda HR-V. Nothing major, but a rear ender in traffic. It took six weeks to fix, and when I got it back the radiator was leaking so they took it back for another 10 days. You have to wait for parts, I didn't go whining to a FB group. Is 32 days too long? It would definitely be nice to be quicker, but it is a relatively new brand expanding quickly in Thailand. And my legacy brand took longer for less damage than that. Aren't we really scraping the barrel now with this post finding a single person who thought their repair took too long?? She has some pretty extensive panel damage. Do they keep those body panels sitting around in all colours in warehouses? No. Do Honda? No. Do BMW? No. She also looks to have some not insignificant A pillar damage, not an easy fix. 32 days "without fixing a nut"? They order parts, wait for them to arrive then fix everything, just as they did with my HR-V. It is just nonsense. Maybe the new more reasonable EOW is no more?

Great video, very balanced.

Yeah I remember that - happened not long before I arrived in Thailand. An absolutely awful tragedy. Is this a new, mellower, more reasonable EOW? I like it.

Yes, if you believe the Mahanakorn, Baiyoke II, Magnolias, Four Seasons private residences and all the other (many) towers over 250m are built with a bad mix of concrete that is up to you, as you say that is your opinion, but what is it based on? Two of those buildings are taller than The Shard which is Western Europe's highest. I base my opinion on the fact that many of them have won global awards. Not sure if you've ever been to Dubai but Emaar built the Burj Khalifa (828m) and probably half of Dubai's high rises. You think they would allow dodgy concrete mixes in Thailand?? Really??? And their buildings might fall over perhaps? Sorry, your anti Thai blinkers really define you. I know you have to put a little snide comment on every single positive Thai story, you can't help yourself - I get it. But think about what you are saying, for once.

Yeah, and real trains go "choo choo". How old are you?

Not only are their stories rubbish but even their memes aren't funny!

Fascinating story. "Man Gets Electrocuted In High Voltage Electrical Equipment Installation Accident." He wasn't a consumer charging his EV, he was a contractor installing the equipment, don't be a drama queen and don't try to mislead (or perhaps you didn't actually read the article?) Has anyone been burned to death while refueling their car in Thailand? https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/man-rushed-burns-unit-after-28138874 Yes, I can play silly games too.

No one said it would solve Thailand's problems. Should the private sector not be able to do anything while Thailand still has "problems"? What a ridiculous thought. The Petronas Towers really put KL on the map. Personally I can't see it ever happening although I think it would be very cool on the small chance it does. We should have been close to completion of the G Land Super Tower (615m, 125 stories) by now but it never got started. There's a reason why the Burj Khalifa has been unchallenged for 14 years - it is incredibly difficult and expensive to build that high.

Okay. And how many of Bangkok's approximately 180 skyscrapers have fallen down because of "dodgy concrete mix"? How many bridges have collapsed? How many mass transit lines have fallen over? Yes, there are construction accidents just like anywhere, but they are pretty good at making tall buildings here, especially considering the composition of the land.

They don't make buildings out of cement.

Yep, plus finding the electricity for two thirds of the world's high speed rail (around 45,000 kms at present).