MG4 Spotted! : Was it you?

[Rolfe]

It's pronounced Poo-KET. Or maybe Boo-KET. Shades of Hyacinth.

 

[securespark]

Then there was Singapore, where we left the ship and stayed for a couple of days. Most cars were either EVs or hybrids running on their battery cycles, and the quiet, low-pollution streets were amazing.

In 1981 I went to Singapore.

The place stank of petrol fumes, but one of my lasting memories was the taxi ride we had where it was so cold, it was like stepping into a fridge! Lovely!

 

[Rolfe]

Not really stinking of petrol fumes now. Unlike Denpasar, Djakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and a few more.

 

[GaryMG4]

Unfortunately it's not like it used to be.
But I guess there aren't many places that are.

Visited in 1980 after John Carter (Holiday TV presenter) suggested visiting whilst it was an unspoilt destination, never did make it back there again.

Then there was Singapore, where we left the ship and stayed for a couple of days. Most cars were either EVs or hybrids running on their battery cycles, and the quiet, low-pollution streets were amazing.
Currently on a sun bed on a beach in the Maldives, coming home on Sunday. No cars here.

Not sure what Singapore is like now, when I visited in 1980 it was somewhere you felt completely safe wandering around at night but somehow uncomfortable. The tour guides had to be government approved and appeared to be reading from the same script while travelling through areas, whereas the boat crews doing trips around the bay were a bit more forthcoming.

The Maldives are a great place to chill, did you speedboat or floatplane to your island?

 

[Martinonline]

I was in Singapore in 1976. Fascinating place. Fell into a monsoon ditch. Went back in 2005 and was not impressed - took clean and tidy.

 

[ReintjeWA]

I left Bali over a fortnight ago, on a cruise ship. I didn't see any EVs there, although we mostly stayed in our resort hotel. I saw an MG garage in one of the ports we stopped at, but only ICE MGs. Phuket, I think it was, had rather more EVs and I saw at least one petrol station with DC chargers. But mostly the places we stopped at were deserts of petrol and diesel fumes.

Then there was Singapore, where we left the ship and stayed for a couple of days. Most cars were either EVs or hybrids running on their battery cycles, and the quiet, low-pollution streets were amazing.

I saw a white MG4 near Robertson Quay. Sadly, its near-side rear passenger door was badly bashed.

Currently on a sun bed on a beach in the Maldives, coming home on Sunday. No cars here.

I was only in Bali for two full days, but saw 2 MG4’s a Chery Omoda (or e5 maybe?) that seemed EV to me, and an ionic 5. But didn’t see any chargers.

One of the taxi drivers was telling us that there are more EV taxis now through Grab, but that they charged a lot more (no pun intended). But he was also pretty anti Grab so who knows how accurate that statement was.

 

[Rolfe]

Speedboat to the island, Olhuveli. Currently relaxing on a sunbed on the deck of our "water villa", a wooden lodge (bedroom and bathroom, large rooms) built on stits over the lagoon. Just had a swim from our own staircase down from the deck. Elsie (my friend) has gone to the aquarobics. Lunch soon.

 

[nogbad]

It's pronounced Poo-KET. Or maybe Boo-KET. Shades of Hyacinth.

I have to wonder how many will know the Hyacinth of whom you speak

 

[Rolfe]

If need be, you can explain.

 

[securespark]

Richard! RICHARD!

 

[MG Clive]

Spotted 2 Camden Grey in Thirsk today, a Trophy (****BZY) charging at Tesco, and an SE just driving into Millgate car park.

 

[dsimpkins]

Sat behind a silver MG TF in traffic on M32 Northbound. Then passed an MGB GT heading South through Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire.

 

[securespark]

Nice!