* Posts by alan

2 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2007

James Bond ditches the Aston Martin

alan

Not stealing

IIRC Vickers sold Rolls Royce cars to VW, but the name was never theirs to sell. The real owners (That'd be Rolls Royce aero engines) are very pally with BMW so VW got the company and BMW got the name.

Cadbury bows to 'bring back Wispa' net campaign

alan

veghelate

Might get us a bad name over the channel, but I prefer it over sickly sweet euro choc everytime