NewsBiscuit Car Review: Kemi Torileda

The American influence is obvious, and a reliance on out of date thinking and an appeal to a narrowing market has a led to this mess. Multiple poor iterations have resulted in a massive loss of power with still extremely high running costs.

The current Torileda has a Kemi made block which only appeals to those who like to put their foot down.

It just doesn’t suit the current environment and is rejected by most European countries. It is ridiculous to think that cutting yourself off from an entire continental market and focusing on a small fan base would be good for long term profitability. To go with a platform that is hugely oil consuming and to dismiss renewable energy powered alternatives, could gift a whole market to China.

For a brand with a long history of success, things have fallen flat because of how wasteful they has been and just catering to the high-end market. This principle was big a few decades ago and they have now seemed to mainly rely on name recognition since then rather than any outstanding performance or innovation. The last few years saw multiple Torileda versions, each one with serious failings calling on multiple embarrassing recalls. The short-lived TR-SS edition was an absolute disaster. The latest version is a lot quieter and stable but still fairly unappealing.

When tested, the automatic response is predictable but doesn’t engage very well. This particular version has lost its traditional support and upcoming UK alternatives have more traction, which could be troubling.

Overall is has juddering, poor performance along with a shoddy reliability record.

Pros

Good for the oil industry

Could be beneficial if you are rich

Cons

Not very responsive and direction feels wobbly

Hated brand with poor support

An improvement, but still way out of touch ✭✩✩✩✩

It will, eventually, all be the fault of Reform

The labour party has been so busy blaming the nasty wicked evil Tories for everything it hasn't been able to fix, that it hasn't noticed that the Tories are no longer any kind of electoral threat.

'Perhaps we need to accept that the rotten, wretched Reform party is a greater threat' said a spokessomethingorother-close-to-the-Labour party.  'And realise that if we lose to them in the next election, we might have to put up with them for a while.  But we will then have to decide whether we will still be "not-the-Tory party", or will have to change our entire electoral strategy and become "not-the-Reform party", and blame the rotten-wretched-Reform party for everything which will have gone wrong, instead of continuing, for ever, to attribute the blame for absolutely everything entirely to the nasty-wicked-evil-Tory party.'

'Are we capable of re-orientating our entire political philosophy so fundamentally?  As usual, as is our tradition, we don't know / aren't sure / haven't made up our minds - so no change there.  And anyway, we  can always change our minds again afterwards, if we ever do make a decision.'

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Robert Jenrick pioneers new ventriloquist act with “Judgie”

Robert Jenrick, once considered a possible contender for leadership of the Conservative Party, has instead struck out in the direction of vaudeville.

Holding up a puppet he called “Judgie”, which in fact consisted of nothing but a judge’s wig, he debuted his new act in front of Tory Party workers in a bizarre and surreal meeting in Pease Pottage.

'Hello, Judgie,' said Jenrick. “What have you been up to lately?'

'Well, I’ve been restricting people’s legal right to free assembly and protest,' replied the puppet, prompting Jenrick to look at the audience in mock surprise. 

'You can’t do that, Judgie,' he continued. 'People have a right to express their opinions, even if you disagree with them.'

The puppet then turned to Jenrick, saying, 'What are you, some kind of pinko Guardian reader? We know what to do with people like you!” Jenrick was then dragged offstage by uniformed thugs while the puppet shouted “Put him on a flight to Rwanda,' to roars of laughter from the audience.

Jenrick's act was followed by a speech by the current Tory Party Chair, a red-velvet upholstered wing back which spoke of the need to restrict immigration and the way foreigners sometimes don’t integrate properly into British society.

Watching the speech live at Reform Party HQ (aka Wetherspoons in Thurrock), Richard Tice remarked to Nigel Farage, 'You said that without moving your lips.'