Results tagged “hypermiling” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

Heinz meanz beanz - not baked beanz any longer. Yes, that's the latest from the only news front that seems to matter at the moment, the wonderful and increasingly expensive world of retail.

Appropriate really, because as an increasingly financially beleaguered pensioner (well that's how one of those latest surveys characterised us) I've decided to become a bean counter as well as a hypermiler.

But Heinz won't figure in my calculations - haven't for quite a while.

One of those horrible big Porsche SUV things (pictured) came hurtling past me on the M6 late last night. Cayenne, they're called, probably dubbed such by some Top Gear fan in the marketing department (pepper - geddit). Anyway, I noticed it particularly because it's becoming rarer, this outside lane hurtle.

I've done it myself, I admit. On one memorable occasion a few years back I knew I was going to lose my licence when I was pulled over after being pursued by a white police Range Rover that in my rear view mirror in the summer evening gloom looked like a cocky white van man trying to catch me in the outside lane. I already had nine points - all for speedings.