tonight on dispatches we investigate the
今晚在调度中，我们调查了
astonishing rise in the price of cars is
汽车价格的惊人上涨，这是您
the second biggest purchase you'll make
after buying a home and right now it's
在买房后进行的第二大购买，现在它有
threatening to break the bank
可能让您破产，
the price tag like this
像这样的价格标签比
25
000 pounds above the initial price were
初始价格高出 25 000 英镑，这
new is that making Haywire The Sun
是新的 使阳光
Shines or taking advantage of the
照耀混乱或利用
consumer this crazy Market is even
消费者这个疯狂的市场甚至
bewildering insiders never experience
令人困惑内部人士从未经历过
something like what we've seen in the
像我们在
last four to 18 months we reveal that
过去四到十八个月中所看到的那样的事情我们透露
the rising car prices could be damaging
汽车价格的上涨可能会损害
our health as well as our wealth we
我们的健康以及 以我们的财富，我们
would have taken three million tons of
会
CO2 out of the tailpipe for just that
从排气管中取出三百万吨二氧化碳，换取
one year's worth of cars we go
一年的汽车价值。我们会进行
undercover to see how careful you have
卧底，看看
to be when you spot what looks like a
当你发现看似便宜的东西时，你必须多小心，
bargain
and we find out how criminals are
我们会发现犯罪分子是如何
cashing in on the market so there's been
兑现的。 市场上有
one confirmed theft of a Range Rover and
一辆路虎揽胜被确认被盗，
then there's been a report of three
然后有报道称
further ones
另外三辆路虎
buckle up is going to be a bumpy ride
揽胜系好安全带将是一次颠簸的旅程
[Music]
[音乐]
I love cars and even after 25 years as a
我喜欢汽车，即使在做了 25 年的
motoring journalist I still can't resist
汽车记者之后，我仍然 无法抗拒
the smell and the feel of a shiny new
car like this wall this is the Ford
像这堵墙一样闪亮的新车的气味和感觉这是福特
Fiesta and it's one of Britain's
嘉年华，它是英国
best-selling and most popular cars
最畅销和最受欢迎的汽车之一
I'm not the only one who's mad about
我不是唯一一个对汽车感到愤怒的人，
Motors
the whole country seems to be in love
整个国家似乎
with them
爱上他们，
if you're old enough to remember the
如果你年纪大到能记得
Millennium then that might include me
千禧年，那么这可能包括我，
you might have thought that we couldn't
你可能会认为我们不能
squeeze any more cars onto our tiny
在我们的小岛上挤更多的汽车，
Island than we have then
那么
you'd be wrong
in the 21st century the number of cars
在 21 世纪你就错了
on Britain's roads has gone up by almost
英国道路上的汽车数量增加了近
a fifth
五分之一，
but new cars have become really
但十年前新车变得非常
expensive ten years ago a Ford Fiesta
昂贵，像这样的福特嘉年华的
like this would have cost less than half
成本还不到
the average salary fast forward to today
平均工资的一半，快进到今天，
and that figure has gone up to 2
这个数字已经上升到 2
and it's not just the trusty Ford Fiesta
that's gone up in price
价格上涨的不仅仅是值得信赖的福特嘉年华，
so have other new cars
in the last three years alone the Fiat
仅在过去三年中，其他新车的价格也上涨了：菲亚特
500 is up by 19 the Nissan Qashqai has
500 上涨了 19%，日产 Qashqai
increased by 25 and the price of the
上涨了 25%，
Vauxhall Astra has risen by 26 percent
沃克斯豪尔 Astra 的价格上涨了 26%
the big question is why are cars so
最大的问题是为什么汽车这么贵
expensive
okay let's start with the basics supply
好吧，让我们
and demand in Britain's red hot car
从英国炙手可热的汽车
market it's very much been a case of
市场的基本供需开始，这很大程度上是
pent-up demand
需求被压抑的情况，
the pandemic was extremely challenging
这场流行病
for Millions but a lucky few came out of
对数百万人来说极具挑战性，但幸运的是少数人来了 解除
lockdown with money they haven't been
封锁后，他们没有钱花，
able to spend others became worried
其他人则担心
about catching covid on public transport
在公共交通上感染新冠病毒，
so they went out and they bought cars
所以他们出去买了汽车，
and when demand is high prices go up
当需求高时，价格上涨，
and so did profits for our car
manufacturers and dealers in Britain the
英国汽车制造商和经销商的利润也随之上涨
top 20 dealers saw profits rise
627 in 2021
2021 年，
across the world 10 of the biggest
全球前 20 名经销商的利润增长了 627 最大的 10 家
manufacturers profits grew by more than
制造商的利润同期增长了
300 percent over the same period almost
300% 以上，接近
60 billion pounds
600 亿英镑
the company that makes these cars has
制造这些汽车的公司
been doing very nicely recently you may
最近表现非常好，你可能
not have heard of the stellantis group
没有听说过 stellantis 集团的成员，
but you'll know their cars they make
但你会知道他们今年
Peugeot and Vauxhall in the first half
上半年生产的标致和沃克斯豪尔汽车，
of this year the group sold 12 fewer
该集团售出的
cars than the year before but earned 12
汽车比去年减少了 12 辆，但
percent more profit an extra 4 billion
利润增加了 12%，额外增加了 40 亿
pounds I've never experienced anything
英镑 我从来没有经历过任何事情
like what we've seen in the last 12 to
就像我们在过去 12 到
18 months the first factor is supply of
18 个月中看到的那样，第一个因素是
new cars 2021 the market was roughly 40
2021 年新车的供应量，市场
percent lower than 2016. there's no
比 2016 年下降了大约 40%。
Supply in the market which is not a
市场上没有供应量，这不是
factor of the manufacturers Just a
制造商的因素，只是一种
phenomena of the market then that's
现象 那么市场
going to create a phenomenon of price
就会造成价格上涨的现象，
inflation is this the new normal do you
这就是新常态吗？你
think now we're looking at extended lead
认为现在我们正在考虑延长交货
times maybe 12 months so I think there's
时间，可能是 12 个月，所以我认为
a huge amount of frustration with
customers and that's our job to make
客户会感到非常沮丧，这是我们的工作，以
sure that we're first of all we're
确保 首先，我们是
transparent we explained to people that
透明的，我们向人们解释说，
we have this situation of a lack of
我们面临着供应不足的情况，
Supply which is not stalantis's industry
这不是斯塔兰蒂斯的行业，
and we keep them updated
我们会不断更新他们的情况，
so should we believe the line that it's
所以我们是否应该相信这
all down to high prices for the parts
一切都是由于高价格造成的
that go into cars well the manufacturers
汽车零部件制造商
say it's been a rocky road for them over
表示，过去几年他们的道路崎岖不平，
the past couple of years and it is true
that the raw materials and components
that go into cars have shot up in price
汽车原材料和零部件的价格确实上涨了，
rubber for tires up by 72 percent energy
轮胎橡胶价格上涨了 72%
up by 50 percent
nickel a key component for electric cars
电动汽车的关键部件镍
has doubled
增加了 50%，
we've seen huge cost increase to Bill
我们已经看到比尔汽车的成本大幅增加，
cars and that's been inflationary for
这
for the price of new cars we don't want
对新车的价格来说是通货膨胀的，我们不想
to increase our prices we want to
提高我们的价格，但
obviously we want to have accessibility
我们显然希望提高价格
of our products but it's um it's super
我们产品的可及性，但是
super tough for the consumer every day
对于消费者来说，每天都超级超级困难，
you know as a household but also you
你知道作为一个家庭，但你也
know as a car manufacturer I know most
知道作为一个汽车制造商，我知道大多数
people will have sympathy for us but but
人都会同情我们，但
the costs are huge and they're growing
成本是巨大的，而且它们正在以
at a very fast rate so it seems to me
一个非常快的速度，所以在我看来，
that you're saying the consumer is doing
你是在说消费者正在尽
their part they're shouldering the
自己的一份力量，他们正在承担
burden in the price of cars you're
汽车价格的负担，你正在
shouldering the burden and you're
承担这个负担，你正在
putting more of your profits into
将更多的利润
investing into the future who isn't
投入到投资中
pulling their weight in this I mean I
我的意思是，我
think at the end if you boil all this
认为最后，如果你把这一切
down it's just obviously Market factors
归结起来，这显然是市场因素，
there's also another problem it's not
还有另一个问题，这
just that materials and components for
不仅仅是生产线的材料和组件
the production line are more expensive
in some cases the car industry just
在某些情况下更昂贵 汽车工业就是
can't get hold of them top of the list
无法将它们放在首位
computer chips or semiconductors
计算机芯片或半导体
you know it's funny when we think about
你知道当我们想到汽车时这很有趣
cars you think about mechanical moving
你想到机械运动
Parts don't you so it's a bit strange to
部件不是吗所以
think that a semiconductor this tiny
认为半导体这么
little microchip that's sometimes no
小有点奇怪 有时不比
bigger than my fingernail has such an
我的指甲盖大的微芯片
impact on the supply chain well it's
对供应链产生了如此大的影响，这是
because in today's modern cars they are
因为在当今的现代汽车中，它们
absolutely everywhere basically if it's
绝对无处不在，基本上，如果它是
electronic it's got a semiconductor in
电子的，里面有半导体，它们会
it they operate things like the seat
操作安全带预紧器之类的东西。
belt pre-tensioners they operate the
electronic mirrors you can find them in
电子后视镜，你可以在信息娱乐系统中找到它们，
the infotainment systems
you can find them in the climate control
你可以在气候控制系统中找到它们，安全
the airbags have got semiconductors in
气囊中也有半导体，
and when it comes to electric cars or
而当涉及到电动汽车时，或者
the numbers get even greater still there
这个数字甚至更大，一个汽车内
are as many as three to four thousand
有多达三到四千个
semiconductors in a typical electric car
半导体。 典型的电动汽车
and that is a big part of the problem
，这是问题的一个重要组成部分
the chip shortage might be about to get
芯片短缺可能会变得
a whole lot worse
更糟
the world's biggest producer is in
世界上最大的生产商在
Taiwan the country is facing
台湾该国正面临着
increasingly aggressive threats from
来自中国日益咄咄逼人的威胁，
China which considers the island part of
中国认为该岛是其领土的一部分，这是一次疫情
its territory
an outbreak of hostilities between the
爆发 两者之间的敌对行动
two could the world supply of
可能会削弱世界半导体的供应，
semiconductors but war or no war car
但无论有没有战争，汽车
companies are already at the back of the
公司已经在
queue for those sought after chips
in the early months of the pandemic when
大流行的最初几个月里排在了抢购芯片的队列后面，当时
we couldn't visit the High Street one in
我们无法访问大街上的一家公司。
five of us bought a digital device
我们五个人在网上购买了数字设备，
online in fact some Electronics were
事实上，一些电子设备的
selling out as quickly as toilet paper
销售速度就像卫生纸
or pasta was
或面食一样快，
and the industries that manufacture
而制造
devices like these use far more chips
此类设备的行业使用的芯片数量远多于
than the car industry which buys only
汽车行业，而汽车行业仅购买
about one in every nine semiconductors
大约九分之一的半导体
produced
生产
car makers didn't order new Chips during
汽车 制造商在大流行期间没有订购新芯片，
the pandemic because at the start no one
因为一开始没有人
was buying new cars now they're
购买新车，现在他们正在
struggling to catch up some of our most
努力追赶我们最
cherished models are now under threat
珍惜的一些车型现在正面临
like this car the Ford Fiesta partly
像福特嘉年华这样的汽车的威胁，部分
because they can't get enough chips
原因是他们无法 得到足够的芯片，
we've actually stopped making the three
我们实际上已经停止生产三门
door whilst they've suspended orders on
车，同时他们已经暂停了
the five-door car which is this one but
五门车的订单，就是这辆车，但是
if you can't get a hold of a new car
如果你买不到一辆新车，
what do you do
你悲哀地
buy a secondhand one
买一辆二手车怎么办？ 事情
sadly it's not as simple as that gone
并不那么简单，当地前院
are the days of a Nifty bargain on the
讨价还价的日子已经一去不复返了。
local forecourt the shortage of new cars
新车的短缺
has had a massive effect on used car
对二手车价格产生了巨大影响。
prices
Erin Baker of AutoTrader magazine is an
《AutoTrader》杂志的艾琳·贝克 (Erin Baker) 是研究二手车
expert in the ups and downs of the
涨跌的专家。
second-hand car market
汽车市场
prices across the board went nuts I mean
价格全面疯涨，我的意思是
the used car market traditionally is a
二手车市场传统上是一个
pretty Stable Market you don't see those
相当稳定的市场，你看不到那些
huge fluctuations so in what kind of
巨大的波动，所以你看到过什么样的
varieties have you seen have you seen
品种，你看到过
any surprises with specific makes or
特定品牌或型号的任何惊喜吗？是的，这就是
models yeah it's the crazy old world out
那里有疯狂的旧世界，前
there at the moment I was looking at our
data the other day we've seen for
几天我在查看我们的数据时，我们看到了
example the lovely old Vauxhall Corsa
例如可爱的老沃克斯豪尔 Corsa，它的
that's in a 249 increase year on year in
prices kind of 10 to 15 years old which
价格同比上涨了 249 美元，大约有 10 到 15 年的历史，这
is quite relevant
是非常相关的
um Volkswagen Golf three to five years
嗯 三到五年的大众高尔夫的
old slightly less of an increase around
增幅略低于
200 still
200 辆左右，但
the shortage of new cars is so acute
新车的短缺仍然如此严重，
that dealers like this one near Oxford
以至于像牛津附近的这家经销商
are now having to fill their Four Courts
现在不得不用新出厂的闪亮盒子来填补他们的四个庭院，
not with shiny box fresh models out of
the factory but with second-hand
而是用 二手
vehicles
车
anomalous shorter would be full of new
异常较短，里面全是新车，
cars but across are five Volvo sites
但在沃尔沃的五个站点上，
we've got 14 cars actually on the ground
我们实际上有 14 辆汽车，
so we've roughly got three cars in each
所以我们每个展厅大约有三辆汽车，
showroom
so we're using the opportunity to
所以我们利用这个机会
display some of our our finer examples
展示一些 我们
of our used cars
的二手车的更好的例子，
we've faced the the issue of the
我们遇到了
manufacturer saying please don't take
制造商的问题，说请不要再接受任何
any more orders for just now we lost a
订单，因为现在我们在需求实际上激增的时候失去了
lot of new car supply at a time when
很多新车供应，
demand actually spiked so we faced a
所以我们面临着
huge increase in the used car pricing on
巨大的压力 由于新车供应不足，二手车价格上涨，
the back of a lack of supply of new cars
we saw that peak in April at 33 percent
我们看到 4 月份达到峰值，同比上涨 33%，
increase year and year so the average
因此
car that you were paying 10 000 pounds
您原来支付 10 000 英镑的平均汽车
is now over 13 000 pounds so some really
现在已经超过 13 000 英镑，所以有些确实
big increases across the board we've got
全面大幅增长，我们的
a really tight Supply
供应非常紧张，
the waiting list for new cars are now so
现在新车的等待名单
long that you can end up buying a model
太长了，以至于你最终可能会购买
that's a few months old and pay more for
几个月前的车型，并且
it than you would the same model if it
比同一款车型支付更多的费用。
was brand new
全新的，
sometimes thousands more
有时甚至数千更多的
dispatches has scoured car adverts
调度已经搜索了
across the UK to find the second hand
英国各地的汽车广告，以找到
car with the biggest percentage markup
加价幅度最大的二手车，
you might have thought it would be a
您可能认为它是一辆
Ferrari or maybe a Rolls-Royce you'd be
法拉利或劳斯莱斯，您
wrong
on a used car for court in the north of
在法庭上使用二手车就错了 在
England we found one of these
英格兰北部，我们发现了其中一款，
so this is the Volkswagen ID3 a sensible
这就是大众 ID3，一款实用的
family hatchback that aims to bring
家庭掀背车，旨在
electric power to the people as electric
随着电动汽车的发展，为人们带来电力。它
cars go it's the more affordable end of
是该系列中更实惠的一端，
the range with prices starting at around
起价约为
33 000 pounds going up to just under 38
33,000 英镑 高达略低于38,000。
000.
what this car isn't is a high-end
这辆车不是一款
premium car worthy of a price tag like
值得这样价格标签的高端豪华车，比
this
最初的价格高出25,000英镑，
new is that making hay while the sun
新的是趁阳光
shines or taking advantage of the
晒干草或利用消费者
consumer
Andy Palmer knows his cars he's worked
安迪·帕尔默（Andy Palmer）了解他的汽车，他
in the industry for more than 40 years
在这个行业工作了 40 多年，
and is a former boss at both Aston
并且是阿斯顿·
Martin and Nissan so who does he think
马丁（Aston Martin）和日产（Nissan）的前老板，所以他认为谁应该
is to blame for the inflated price of
为二手车价格上涨负责？
second-hand cars
I don't think that you can attribute
可以将
blame prices are going up because of the
责任归咎于乌克兰战争导致价格上涨、
Ukraine war the issues around covid and
新冠肺炎相关问题，
in particular therefore the Silicon chip
特别是硅芯片
shortages the general cost of living and
短缺、总体生活成本和
higher inflation normally these are
通货膨胀上升，通常这些
events that happen one at a time but
事件一次发生一个，但
they've all conflated together and just
它们都混在一起了，
create a very difficult situation when
当汽车短缺时，就会造成非常困难的情况，
you have a shortage of cars the second
二手车
hand prices are going up and and dealers
价格上涨，经销商
are able to make a little bit of money
能够赚一点钱，
there
but the public are starting to Rebel the
但公众开始反抗，
latest figures show that used car sales
最新数据显示二手车销量
are down by nearly a fifth compared to
下降 与去年相比，
last year
so far prices haven't fallen in response
到目前为止价格还没有下降近五分之一，
coming up with only so many computer
因为只有这么多的计算机
chips to go around we ask if the car
芯片可供使用，我们不禁要问，汽车
industry is building them into pricey
行业是否正在将它们制造成这样的昂贵
cars like this at the expense of Cheaper
汽车，而以牺牲
models like this because it's a shortage
像这样的廉价车型为代价 因为短缺，
they can't produce all the vehicles they
他们无法生产他们想要生产的所有车辆
want to produce
，而且我们发现犯罪分子如何利用
cashing in on Britain's soaring car
英国飞涨的汽车
prices I doubt whether it even enters
价格获利，我怀疑他们是否
their mind that they might be caught
想过自己可能会被抓到，
I don't think they think anything about
我不认为他们认为 关于受害人的任何事情
the victim
foreign
外国
ERS is investigating the spiraling cost
ERS ​​正在调查
of cars in this country you simply can't
这个国家不断上升的汽车成本 你根本买不到
get hold of new cars and the price of
新车，
second-hand Vehicles has gone through
二手车的价格已经飙升
the roof
it's the beginning of the story next we
这是故事的开始 接下来我们看看
find out who's cashing in on Britain's
谁是 利用英国的
car crisis and how our obsession with
汽车危机以及我们对
cars like this is making things worse
这样的汽车的痴迷如何让事情变得更糟
britons are obsessed with SUVs turn on
英国人沉迷于SUV打开
your TV and there's a glossy commercial
你的电视，十年前几乎每次爆发都会有这样的光鲜亮丽的广告，
like this in almost every outbreak ten
years ago less than one in five new cars
sold were SUVs last year that proportion
售出的新车不到五分之一 SUV去年这一比例
had doubled
翻了一番，
and car manufacturers love them too
汽车制造商也喜欢它们，
because they sell for so much more money
因为它们的售价
than small cars
比小型车高得多。SUV
SUVs also use lots more precious
还使用了许多更珍贵的
computer chips and other components now
计算机芯片和其他现在供应
in short supply sometimes as much as
短缺的部件，有时甚至是普通汽车
double the numbers that are used in a
中使用数量的两倍。
run around
dispatches has been told that some
据报道，一些
manufacturers are devoting more of those
制造商正在将更多的
precious chips to more expensive SUVs
珍贵芯片投入到更昂贵的 SUV 上，这
leaving other customers waiting longer
使得其他客户等待
for their cars
他们的汽车的时间更长。
car manufacturers have a limited supply
汽车制造商的硅芯片供应有限，
of silicon chips
they can't make all of the vehicles that
他们无法生产所有
they like to make so what they do is
他们喜欢的车辆 为此，
they tend to prioritize those chips to
他们倾向于将这些芯片优先用于
the more expensive cars but it does mean
更昂贵的汽车，但这确实
that there are a shortage of entry-level
意味着消费者缺乏入门级
vehicles for the consumer what does the
汽车，
car industry's trade body have to say
汽车行业的贸易机构对此有何评论？
about that
we're hearing stories that manufacturers
听到这样的故事，制造商优先
are prioritizing those higher entry
考虑那些
point premium cars that are using more
使用更多半导体的更高入门级高档汽车，
semiconductors rather than building the
而不是制造
more run-of-the-mill affordable cars
更普通的经济型汽车，
because it's a shortage they can't
因为这是短缺，他们无法
produce all the vehicles they want to
生产他们想要生产的所有车辆。
produce your manufacturing thing what
are you going to add there's a finite
你要补充什么
number of vehicles I can produce I need
我可以生产的车辆数量有限 我需要
to keep my plants operating I need to
保持我的工厂运转 我需要让
keep my people employed I've got to
我的员工保持就业 我必须
maintain commercial viability so they're
保持商业活力，所以他们
tending to focus on more higher margin
倾向于专注于更高利润的
Vehicles is that fair though for the
车辆 公平地说，对于
mainstream consumer who have already
已经
been absolutely battered they can't buy
受到绝对打击的主流消费者来说，他们买不起
affordable cars there's a shortage of
负担得起的汽车，
vehicles across the range because your
整个系列的车辆都短缺，因为你的
production is constrained you can't
生产受到限制，你无法
support every segment of the market
simultaneously it is a global issue and
同时支持市场的每个部分，这是一个全球性问题，
it states fundamentally to the impact of
它从根本上说明了
covid on the industry so what advice do
新冠肺炎疫情对该行业的影响，那么
you have for for people who are looking
对于那些正在寻找
for these more affordable cars that the
这些更实惠的汽车的人，您有什么建议，这些汽车
manufacturers just start making well
制造商刚刚开始生产，他们仍在
they're they're still making them but
生产，但
not perhaps in the numbers that they
数量可能不多 他们
want to make because although the demand
想要制造，因为虽然需求
is there so the advice invariably is go
存在，所以建议总是去
to your dealer go to your retailer see
你的经销商去你的零售商看看有
what's available
什么可用的，
but as we found many new petrol and
但我们发现许多新的汽油和
diesel cars just aren't available right
柴油汽车现在没有可用，
now
situation is even worse when it comes to
情况甚至更糟 谈到
electric cars
电动汽车，
some manufacturers say the only way they
一些制造商表示，他们
can make electric cars pay is by
可以让电动汽车付出代价的唯一方法是
building the more expensive models like
制造更昂贵的车型，例如
this one in fact for Audi who make this
这款车型，事实上对于生产这款
car they don't make any smaller electric
汽车的奥迪来说，他们不生产任何比这更小的电动
cars than this the same is the case for
汽车，情况也是如此 对于
many other car makers
许多其他汽车制造商来说，
buying a car of any kind right now is
现在购买任何类型的汽车都
eye-wateringly expensive so what's the
贵得令人眼花缭乱，所以有什么
alternative well you could just hire one
选择呢？你可以在
when you need it but renting a car is
需要时租一辆车，但租一辆车
almost as fraught as buying one at the
几乎和在大流行开始时买一辆一样令人担忧
moment when the pandemic started Car
汽车
Hire ground to a halt and the high
租赁陷入停滞，大
companies sold many of the vehicles in
公司现在出售了车队中的许多车辆，
their fleets now even they can't get
即使他们无法获得
hold of new models to replace their
新车型来替换
stock and that's had a knock-on effect
库存，这
on higher prices
对更高的价格产生了连锁反应，
okay let me see how much it costs to
好吧让我看看有多少
hire a car from reading in Berkshire and
在伯克郡读书租一辆车要花很多钱，
more importantly let's see if I can
更重要的是，让我们看看我是否
actually get a hold of any
真的能从
sell a car for a day from tomorrow
明天起一天内找到卖车的
good news
好消息，有
35 cars available
35 辆车可用，
bad news Goodness Me Ford Focus 165
坏消息天哪，福特福克斯 165
pounds and Nissan Qashqai fairly
磅，日产逍客相当
standard family car 205 pounds
标准 家庭用车 205 磅
these promises that are extraordinary
这些承诺非常好
okay let me try and give them a call
好吧，让我试着给他们
um and see if I can get a deal because I
打电话，看看我是否能达成交易，因为我
do quite like a haggle so I'm going to
确实很喜欢讨价还价，所以我会
go for the Ford Focus I think
选择福特福克斯，我认为
that's a good standard family car five
这是一个很好的选择 标准家庭用车 五
seats 165 pounds for the day
座 一天 165 磅
hello yeah I'd like to hire a car just
你好，是的，我想明天租一辆汽车，只租
for one day tomorrow
一天，
from reading in Berkshire
从伯克希尔
Ford Focus was similar yeah how much
福特福克斯的阅读中可以看出是类似的，是的，那有多
would that be
sorry could you repeat that
遗憾，你能重复
261 pounds
for a day
一天 261 磅吗？
yeah that I don't think I can afford
我不认为我能负担
that for just for one day it's just so
得起这一天的
much money 261 pounds is that the best
费用，261 英镑是
price you can do
你能做的最好价格，
no I just think it's too expensive no
不，我只是觉得它太贵了，不，
I'm Gonna Leave it thank you thanks bye
我要离开它，谢谢你，谢谢
bye-bye
再见- 再见，
wow
哇，
um to hire a Ford Focus for one day
租一辆福特福克斯一天要花 261 英镑，
drops if I'm gonna go for a week but
如果我要去一周的话，这个费用就下降了，但
goodness me that is unbelievable but
天哪，这真是令人难以置信，但
actually my sister is here from
实际上我姐姐现在从
Australia at the moment and this really
澳大利亚来，这确实
lines up with what she's been telling me
与她所说的相符 我
because they just couldn't afford to
因为他们
hire a car they've had to borrow a car
租不起一辆车，他们
in the end from some family members
最终不得不从一些家庭成员那里借一辆车，
because they were being quoted eight
因为他们在曼彻斯特的报价是八千
nine hundred pounds for a week up in
九百英镑一周，
Manchester so yeah it does seem that um
所以是的，嗯，汽车似乎确实如此
car rental is going through the roof
租金飞涨
a recent study showed that since the
一项最近的研究显示，自疫情爆发以来，
start of the pandemic average car high
prices in London Manchester and Glasgow
伦敦、曼彻斯特和格拉斯哥的平均汽车价格
nearly traveled to an average of more
几乎达到
than 800 pounds a week
每周平均 800 英镑以上，
so if it's too expensive to hire a car
因此，如果租车
and buying one is Way Out Of Reach what
和购买一辆汽车太贵的话 遥不可及
do you do well if you're a criminal you
如果你是一名犯罪分子，你
steal one and up and down Britain car
偷了一辆汽车，你会做什么？英国上下的汽车
crime is on the rise last year vehicle
犯罪呈上升趋势，去年
thefts in the UK shot up by almost a
英国的汽车盗窃案增加了近
third because when it comes to cars
三分之一，因为涉及汽车
crime really does pay right now
犯罪 现在确实值得
meet Maddie her precious Vauxhall was
遇见麦迪，去年 11 月的一个漆黑夜晚，她珍贵的沃克斯豪尔在
stolen from outside her home on a dark
她家外面被偷了，
evening last November
the only thing the thieves Left Behind
窃贼留下的唯一东西
was CCTV images of themselves parking
是他们将
her car in a road nearby
她的车停在八点钟附近的道路上的闭路电视图像，
eight o'clock
my car was gone
我的车 不见了，
so it's my car
所以我的车
being parked up with another car coming
停在那里，另一辆车
into the close
驶入附近，
you can see two boys getting out of my
你可以看到两个男孩从我的
vehicle and then you will see them drive
车里下来，然后你会看到他们开着
off in this other car while mine is left
另一辆车开走，而我的车
parked up over in the corner there
停在角落里，
my car was parked up there for a few
我的 车在那里停了几个
hours which I now know they do to see if
小时，我现在知道，当我收到闭路电视录像时，他们这样做是为了看看
a Tracker is on my vehicle
我的车上是否有追踪器，
by the time I got sent the CCTV footage
my car had gone
我的车已经被盗了，这让
the theft made muddy and her family's
她的家人的
daily life much harder than normal
日常生活比平常困难得多
my daughter has special needs and she
我的女儿有特殊需要，她
finds leaving the home extremely
发现离开家非常
difficult and the only time I can get
困难，我唯一能把
her from one place to another is in my
她从一个地方带到另一个地方的时间就是在我的
car so for her my car was a bit of a
车里，所以对她来说，我的车有点像生命线，
lifeline
the more valuable the car
车越有价值，
the more tempting a Target it is for
就越有吸引力。 它的目标是
thieves
小偷，
especially in affluent places where
特别是在富裕的地方，那里有
there are plenty of top end cars to
很多高端汽车可以
steal
偷
and the police are out to catch those
，警察也出动去抓那些
thieves from okay before too are we able
小偷，我们之前也可以
to do some ampr work in areas like this
在像赖盖特和萨里这样的地区做一些安防工作吗？
reigate and Surrey there's been a
dramatic increase in the number of
stolen cars and car parts placing it in
被盗汽车和汽车零部件的数量急剧增加，使其成为
the top 10 worst hit regions for vehicle
车辆盗窃最严重的 10 个地区，
theft that men have had three vehicles
stolen the evening Land Rovers
当晚，
the police are taking part in operation
警方正在参与路虎行动，
blink to catch car thieves we've got a
抓获偷车贼，男子三辆车被盗 一辆
Range Rover silver one asking us I think
银色路虎揽胜问我们，我想
it went straight out of the roundabout
它是直接从环形交叉口开出来的，
can Monday know they're out there
周一就知道他们今晚就在那里，这
tonight and it's already been a busy
night for car theft
对于汽车盗窃来说已经是一个繁忙的夜晚了，
the range went that way
范围就这样走了，
I've never seen so many Range Rovers in
我从来没有见过这么多路虎揽胜 在
this area
这个地区，已经
so there's been one confirmed theft of a
确认发生了一起
Range Rover and then there's been a
路虎揽胜被盗事件，然后有
report of three further ones where
报告称，还有另外三起盗窃案，
they've been attempted and they were
他们曾尝试过，但他们被
scared off
吓跑了，他们出去了，
they're out and about and they're
they're not only ready to to steal these
他们不仅准备好了
cars brazenly but they're ready to
明目张胆地偷这些车，但他们已经准备好
protect themselves and to try and limit
保护自己，并试图限制被
their chance of getting caught
抓住的机会
Echo 4-2 we got a very short ETA as well
Echo 4-2 我们的预计到达时间也很短，
suddenly the police think they may have
警察突然认为他们可能很
struck lucky
幸运，
they stop a high performance car by the
他们拦下了一辆高性能汽车 在路边，
side of the road
none of the occupants can prove they own
没有一个车主能证明他们拥有
it
这辆车，
they're all arrested on suspicion of car
他们都因涉嫌汽车盗窃而被捕，
theft
later police discovered that the car
后来警方发现汽车
wasn't stolen and no action was taken
不是被盗的，没有采取任何行动，
but on average Surrey police are seeing
但萨里警方平均看到了
almost 30 cars stolen every week
近 30 辆车 每周都会被偷
to cash in thieves don't even have to
来换取现金 小偷甚至不必
risk stealing a whole car a knock-on
冒着偷整辆车的风险
effect of the car price crisis is that
汽车价格危机的连锁反应是
component prices are now so high that
零部件价格现在如此之高，以至于
thieves are increasingly resorting to
小偷越来越多地
stealing just parts of vehicles
on the 20th of May this year I found
在 20 日只偷汽车的零部件 今年五月，我发现
something stolen from my car thieves had
我的车贼偷了一些东西，他们
visited the Sussex home of retired
拜访了苏塞克斯退休
accountant Barbara as soon as I started
会计师芭芭拉的家，当我一开始，
it I knew there was something wrong in
我就知道出了问题，因为
that it sounded like a tank engine all I
它听起来像坦克发动机，我
thought was perhaps
以为可能是
the exhausted gone and I hadn't realized
精疲力尽了， 我没有意识到
it was at that stage
就在那个阶段，
it was only when the AAA man came and
直到 AAA 男子走过来，朝
looked right under the car and the first
汽车下方看去，
words he said was you've had the
他说的第一句话是你已经有了
catalytic converter Nick
催化转换器尼克
precious metals in a catalytic converter
催化转换器中的贵金属
are worth several hundred pounds and
价值数百英镑
some are more valuable than gold because
有些比黄金更有价值，因为
I've got a 17 year old car I never
我有一辆 17 年车龄的汽车 我从来没想
thought my car was vulnerable for the
过我的车会受到
catalytic converter
催化转化器的影响
I've lived here nearly 40 years and
我在这里住了近 40 年，
never had any problems at all I've been
从来没有遇到过任何问题 我一直在
having cancer treatment and I was having
接受癌症治疗 我当时正在接受
cancer treatment while the car was off
癌症治疗，而车却离开了
the road so I had to get a friend to
道路，所以我不得不让一个朋友
take me to hospital for two days I don't
带我去医院两天，我
think they think anything about the
认为他们不会为
victim I just think
受害者考虑任何事情，我只是认为
it's 200 quid in our pocket I doubt
我们口袋里有 200 英镑，我怀疑
whether it even enters the mind that
是否会想到
they might be caught because they do it
他们可能会被抓住，因为他们经常这样做
so often
next we discover the high car prices
接下来我们发现高汽车价格
that have made it more lucrative to sell
使得将
written off cars to unsuspecting buyers
注销的汽车出售给毫无戒心的买家更有利可图
I was absolutely horrified
我绝对感到震惊
we've got damage to the seal curtain
我们的密封件被损坏 帘式
airbags dashboard airbags all gone off
安全气囊 仪表板安全气囊全部脱落，
and we go undercover Britain's biggest
我们去英国最大的
Car Supermarket where this previously
汽车超市卧底，这辆以前
crashed car is now being sold as
撞坏的汽车现在被当作原始车出售，
pristine
all Jackson should be done ones that be
所有杰克逊都应该做那些
passed only then cars available for
只有通过之后才能提供
customer support
客户支持的汽车
I'm investigating why new and used car
我正在调查为什么是新车和二手车
prices are so high right now and how
现在的汽车价格如此之高，犯罪分子如何利用
criminals have been cashing in on the
soaring prices
飞涨的价格获利，
if you are fortunate enough to be able
如果您足够幸运，
to afford to buy a used car right now
现在有能力购买二手车，
then fantastic but we have discovered
那就太棒了，但我们发现
that you need to be very careful about
您需要非常小心
what you buy and where it has come from
你买的，它是从哪里来的，
that pristine looking motor could have
那辆看上去很原始的发动机可能
been in a serious accident and my
发生了严重的事故，而我的
costume or the new bargained for
服装或新的讨价还价的，
this is the way it works my car might be
这就是它的工作方式，我的车可能
worth 20 000 pounds but then I have a
价值 20 000 英镑，但后来我发生了
crash and the damage is so bad that it's
碰撞和损坏 太糟糕了，
not worth repairing
不值得修理，
but somebody buys my car repairs it and
但有人买了我的车修理它，然后
puts it up for sale again
再次出售，
as it's been in a serious accident it
因为它发生了严重事故，
should be declared as such and will be
应该如此声明，并且
worth thousands of pounds less than it
价值将比以前少数千英镑，
was before
unless the advert says it's never been
除非广告 说，
in an accident in the first place
首先从来没有发生过事故，更
worse still if the repair job has been
糟糕的是，如果维修工作质量
shoddy the car could be a death trap
不佳，汽车可能会成为死亡陷阱，以
selling previously written off cars in
this way is becoming more common because
这种方式出售以前报废的汽车变得越来越普遍，因为
prices in the used car market have gone
二手车市场的价格
up so much
上涨了，所以
meet David last year he bought this mini
去年与大卫见面，他买了这辆迷你车，
he was delighted with his new little
他对他的新小马达很满意，
motor the original advert for the
vehicle who purchased will be looking
购买的车辆的原始广告看起来与
car pretty much what we were looking for
我们想要的汽车几乎一样，
but eight months later when David and
但八个月后，当大卫和
his wife tried to part exchange the mini
他的妻子试图部分交换时
for an electric car they encountered a
电动汽车的迷你车 他们遇到了一个
problem the mini had previously been in
问题 迷你车以前发生过一次
an accident so serious that it had been
事故，严重到已被
written off I'm viewing the images I was
注销 我正在查看图像 我
absolutely horrified
非常震惊，
we've got damage to the sill curtain
门槛帘安全气囊已损坏 仪表板安全
气囊全部失效
completely ripped off
完全撕掉了
the offside front wheel it would
越位前轮，这将
indicate a real Hefty impact
表明真正的重大撞击
shocking
令人震惊
Not only was the car insurance right off
不仅是汽车保险立即生效，
it looked to me to be in a condition
在我看来处于
Beyond repair
无法修复的状态
but more than that the fact that I put
，而且更重要的是，我把
my wife in that car to drive around in
我的妻子放在那辆车里 开车
for eight months
八个月了，
I just struggled to understand how that
我只是很难理解怎么
can happen
会发生这种事，
I kind of felt I'd let her down
我有点觉得我让她失望了，
because it was my responsibility to be
因为在
sure that vehicle was safe
before David bought his mini a search of
大卫购买他的迷你车之前，我有责任确保车辆安全，并对其
its history was carried out and no
历史进行了搜索 没有
issues were found
发现任何问题，
but when he tried to sell the car onto a
但当他试图将汽车卖给经销商时，
dealer They carried out a more extensive
他们进行了更广泛的
background check that revealed the mini
背景调查，结果显示这辆迷你车
had been in a crash and had been
曾发生过车祸，并且已完全
completely written off additional checks
注销，在
like this are not compulsory
with the help of a claims specialist he
一位索赔专家
eventually persuaded the seller to take
最终说服了卖家
the car back and refund his money
取回汽车并退款，
but then David got another nasty shock
但随后大卫又受到了一次令人震惊的打击，
so once the vehicle was returned to the
所以一旦车辆退还给
vendor it then appeared online again for
供应商，它就会再次出现在网上
sale and it was cleared it was the same
出售，并且经证实这是同一
vehicle
辆车，
and it was up for the same price if
并且 如果
someone knowingly tries to sell a car
有人故意试图以同样的价格出售这样的汽车
like this without declaring it has been
而不声明它已被
a write-off that's illegal it frustrates
注销，这是非法的，这有点令人沮丧，
a bit and it worries me how many other
它让我担心还有多少其他
vehicles are our loved ones driving
车辆是我们的亲人驾驶
around in the outfit to be on the road
着这套装备去的 在路上
I've come to meet the man who helped
我来见帮助
Dave
's money back
戴夫退款的人
Ian Ferguson is a vehicle claims
伊恩·弗格森 (Ian Ferguson) 是一名车辆索赔
specialist who's got hundreds of cases
专家，
on his books victims who have bought
他的书上有数百起案件 受害者在
written off cars unwittingly
不知不觉中购买了报废汽车，
of why I'm seeing as in the cases I deal
我为什么会看到这样的情况 我
with the provenance checks through the
在购买过程中处理来源检查的情况并
process of the buying are not happening
没有发生，
which means that more and more of these
这意味着越来越多的
uncategorized write-offs are finding
未分类注销正在
their way through from auction sites and
从拍卖网站找到途径，
then they find their way into an online
然后进入在线
used car seller why do you feel that at
二手车卖家，为什么 您是否觉得目前
the moment you're seeing an increase in
those numbers what's causing it to spike
这些数字正在增加，是什么导致了
there's such a demand for used cars that
二手车的激增，人们对二手车的需求越来越大，他们
people are becoming less choosy they're
变得不那么挑剔，他们
more happy to buy a car rather than
更乐意购买汽车，而不是
worry about the provenance and as those
担心来源和 随着
prices are driven up it means that
价格上涨，这意味着
there's more money to be made on these
这些
retin-off and salvaged cars Ian
报废和报废的汽车可以赚更多的钱。伊恩
estimates that around 40 000 Undeclared
估计，每年大约有 40,000 辆未申报的
write-offs are sold like this each year
报废汽车以这种方式出售，
and those sales could be worth around
这些销售额可能价值约
800 million pounds we went from that to
8 亿英镑。 从那到那
that
is big business isn't it it's a lot of
是一笔大生意，不是吗？它可以
money to be made there's more Sinister
赚很多钱，
undertones with these cars as well and
这些汽车也有更多险恶的暗示，
so far as where you have cars with
到目前为止，你的汽车有安全
airbags have gone off and instead of
气囊已经爆炸了，而不是
replacing the airbag which would have
更换安全气囊，这会
been many many thousands of pounds the
花费了数千磅，安全
airbags simply been cut away the
气囊被切掉了，
system's been reset the car's been
系统被重置了，汽车被修复了，
repaired painted and put it back out
喷漆了，并把它放回
into the retail food chain
了零售食物链，
that could have fatal consequences if
如果有人发生事故，可能会造成致命的后果，那里已经
somebody was in an accident there's
nowhere back there
无处可去
the hundreds of checks carried out by
big dealers should pick up any safety
大型经销商进行的数百次检查应该可以发现任何
problems like this but shouldn't
此类安全问题，但消费者在购买汽车之前不应该
consumers still know the full history of
仍然了解汽车的完整历史吗
the car before they buy it
dispatches has seen evidence provided by
调度已经看到了
an enhanced checking database called
名为 v-check 的增强检查数据库提供的证据
v-check that some of the biggest names
in the business are advertising as
该行业最知名的公司都在广告中宣传发生
pristine cars that have been in serious
过严重事故的原始汽车，
accidents
we found one of these cars at car giant
我们在汽车巨头的
the massive car joint showroom has
大型汽车联合陈列室中发现了其中一辆汽车，
thousands of cars all in one place
在一个地方有数千辆汽车，
that's worth nothing in compelling
在引人注目的
well-produced ads like this they
精心制作的广告中毫无价值，例如 他们
describe how convenient it is to buy a
描述了
car from them
从他们那里购买
on sale at car giant was this skoda
在汽车巨头出售的汽车是多么方便，这辆斯柯达卡
karak in 2020 it suffered such serious
拉克在 2020 年的一次事故中遭受了如此严重的
structural damage in a crash that it was
结构损坏，以至于被
written off
报废，
but here it is looking and span in
但在这里，它在在线广告中看起来很漂亮和跨度
an online advert two years later at car
两年后，在汽车
giant so come to car Giant in their
巨头，所以来到汽车巨人，在他们
persuasive slick adverts they describe
有说服力的华而不实的广告中，他们将
themselves as the largest car dealership
自己描述为世界上最大的汽车经销商
in the world and the UK's leading Car
和英国领先的汽车
Supermarket
超市，
we decided to pay them a visit filming
我们决定拜访他们，进行
undercover to take a closer look at the
卧底拍摄，以便仔细观察
car and see what they would say about
汽车 看看他们会如何谈论
its history I was just wondering who I
它的历史 我只是想知道我
could speak to about a viewing of a car
可以和谁谈谈关于观看一辆车的事情
I haven't booked it in it's a skoda
我还没有预订它，它是一辆
karat and I've got the registration
斯柯达克拉，我在这里有车牌
number just here you
号
Hy 69
Hy 69
and then I believe it's zero oef that's
然后 我相信它是零 oef 这是它
it has it been anything
是
any categories
任何类别
anything anything like that
任何类似的东西
um
嗯
okay so because what what are the checks
好吧所以因为检查是什么
because I I don't know how it works
因为我我不知道它是如何工作的
inspections right
检查正确
should be done once that be passed only
应该在通过后进行只有
then bar is available for customer
然后酒吧才可用 为了客户
support okay
支持，好的，
written off cars are given a letter
注销的汽车被赋予了一个字母
category this skoda was given a category
类别，这辆斯柯达被赋予了一个类别
s meaning it had structural damage so
s ，这意味着它有结构损坏，所以
you I know that there are different
你我知道有不同
categories of structure damage aren't
类别的结构损坏不
there so if it's not had any of that it
存在，所以如果它没有任何类别，那就
means it's not ever been an accident or
意味着 这从来没有发生过事故，也
ever been written off anything like that
没有被注销过类似的
responsibility
责任，
嗯，
okay well that's good to know
好吧，很高兴知道感谢
thanks for your help
您的帮助
car Giants said all our cars are checked
汽车巨人表示，我们所有的汽车都
against the industry standard vehicle
根据行业标准车辆
history database and undergo rigorous
历史数据库进行检查，并经过严格的
inspections to ensure each car is
检查，以确保每辆车都是
roadworthy and safe in this case car
在这种情况下，汽车
giant paid full market price for the
巨头从世界上最大的汽车经销商之一支付了该车辆的全部市场价格，
vehicle from one of the world's largest
vehicle remarketers the vehicle passed
该车辆通过了
both fares and car Giants physical
票价和汽车巨头的物理
inspection and Industry standard
检查以及行业标准
database checks once car giant learned
数据库检查，一旦汽车巨头得知
that the insurer failed to declare the
保险公司未能申报该
car's write-off status it immediately
汽车的 注销状态 它立即
withdrew the vehicle from sale car giant
从销售中撤回车辆 汽车巨头
now checks all their retail stock with
现在使用 vcheck 检查其所有零售库存，
vcheck and found this to be the only
发现这是
incident of an Undeclared write-off car
未申报注销汽车
joint continues to provide full
联合公司的唯一事件 继续为
guaranteed Assurance on all our cars
我们所有的汽车提供充分的保证 -所
that if third-party data relied on is
依赖的当事人数据
inaccurate customers will be fully
不准确，客户将获得全额
reimbursed and never out of pocket
报销，并且永远不会自掏腰包，
at least with a traditional dealer like
至少对于像
car giant it's possible to go onto the
汽车巨头这样的传统经销商来说，可以进入
four court and just really give the car
四法庭，真正让汽车
the once over
彻底了解
the world of car dealing is changing
汽车交易的世界正在发生变化
all our cars pass a 300 point inspection
我们所有的汽车都经过 300 点检查，
and a carefully reconditioned an
并经过精心翻新和
effective polished adverts like these
有效的抛光广告，例如这些
kazoo claims to have customer
kazoo 声称以客户
satisfaction at its heart and every car
满意度为核心，每辆车都
comes with a seven-day money-back
提供 7 天退款
guarantee kazoo is one of a new breed of
保证 kazoo 是新型
online only car supermarkets it keeps
在线汽车之一 汽车超市
cost down and it should be easier for
降低了成本，对
everyone especially as they claim to
每个人来说都应该更容易，特别是因为他们声称对他们
make extensive checks on every car they
sell but we've heard they are selling
销售的每辆汽车进行广泛的检查，但我们听说他们正在销售
cars with hidden histories
具有隐藏历史的
cars that we found on the website that
汽车，我们在网站上发现这些汽车
quite clearly shouldn't be when you dig
显然不应该' 当你
into their history so we've got one here
深入研究他们的历史时，我们这里有
a BMW but if I look over here this is a
一辆宝马，但如果我看一下，这是
salvage report from when the car passed
汽车通过报废拍卖时的报废报告，很
through the salvage auction and there's
quite clearly been some major damage to
明显它受到了一些重大损坏，
it including
包括
the airbines which have been deployed so
空气涡轮机 已经部署了，所以
it's got a hidden history that just
它有一个隐藏的历史，
isn't clear at all for whoever is in the
对于任何正在
process of buying that car
购买那辆车的人来说根本不清楚，
so while I'm on hold I'm just going to
所以当我等待时，我只是
have a quick look at what that um 300
快速浏览一下那个 um 300
Point check entails it's very thorough
点检查需要对
looks at everything from body exterior
从车身外部
brake systems to the car data let's take
制动系统到汽车数据的所有内容进行非常彻底的检查，让我们
a look at that and here Point 15 in the
看一下，这里是
car data clearance day check the car's
汽车数据清除日的第 15 点，检查汽车的
history report
历史记录，报告
your name
你的名字，
it's uh Ginny Buckley hi Julie how can I
呃，金妮·巴克利，嗨，朱莉，我怎么能
help you today oh yeah hi I'm just
今天可以帮助您哦，是的，嗨，我只是
inquiring about a car that you've got
询问您
for sale on the website I just had a few
在网站上出售的一辆汽车，我只是有一些
questions about it I just wanted to
关于它的问题，我只是想
check does it have the log book with the
检查一下它是否有汽车日志，
car
okay
好的，
there's a car being involved in any
有一辆车 卷入
accidents in its history
历史上的任何事故
okay bye
好吧，再见，
clear as day
一清二楚，
嗯，它
there is no way that it's been involved
不可能卷入
in an accident they don't sell vehicles
一场事故，他们不出售
that have been involved in accidents and
卷入事故的车辆，
yet I can see that somebody is actually
但我可以看到有人实际上
going through the process of buying this
正在经历这个过程 购买这
car and if I flick through to the
辆车的时候，如果我浏览一下关于
Salvage report on it it has quite
它的报废报告，它显然
clearly been involved in a pretty
卷入了一场相当
serious accident the airbags have
严重的事故，安全气囊已经
deployed
展开，前排驾驶员一侧发生了一次
there's a really nasty crash to the
非常严重的碰撞，
front driver's side there's no way I
我绝对
would want to buy that car and put
不想买那辆车 在不完全了解其历史的情况下，将
myself or more importantly my family or
我自己或更重要的是我的家人或
my friends into it without knowing fully
我的朋友带入其中，
its history
sad
可悲的是，
the example presented is highly unusual
所提供的示例非常不寻常，
and not at all representative of the
并且根本不能代表
general kazoo experience given it is
一般的卡祖笛体验，因为它
based on just one car out of over 80 000
仅基于我们所拥有的 80 000 多辆汽车中的一辆
that we have sold we play safety and
已售出，我们将安全和
quality above all else all of our cars
质量放在第一位，我们的所有汽车都
undergo thorough quality checks
经过彻底的质量检查，
including searches for any previous
包括搜索任何以前的
accidental damage history in a rare
意外损坏历史记录，在极少数情况下，
example like this damage which is not
例如未
reported to an insurance company may not
向保险公司报告的损坏可能不会
show up in Industry standard searches
出现在行业标准搜索中， 这
which is an industry-wide challenge
是一个全行业的挑战，
although we would of course refund the
尽管我们当然会
customer in full and take the car back
全额退款给客户并取回汽车，但
we have now undertaken a full review of
我们现在已经对我们的流程进行了全面审查，
our processes to ensure that we are
以确保我们
better able to identify these issues in
the future
将来能够在
without one single database it's very
没有单一数据库的情况下更好地识别这些问题
difficult for us as car buyers to check
对于我们作为购车者来说，检查
a car's history we have to trust the
汽车的历史记录非常困难，我们必须相信
seller
卖方
dispatchers ask the department for
调度员向运输部门询问
transport why it has not been made a
为什么没有
legal requirement for a vehicle's
法律要求将车辆的
history to be published on a single
历史记录发布在每个人都可以
database that is readily accessible to
轻松访问的单一数据库上
everyone
the department said that the driver and
该部门表示，驾驶员和
vehicle standards agency publish mot
车辆标准机构
results on a single database to Aid
在单一数据库上发布了大部分结果，以帮助
drivers in making good choices about
驾驶员在购买车辆时做出正确的选择。
vehicle purchases they said the
他们表示，
government also publishes step-by-step
政府还在
guidance on its website to Aid drivers
其网站上发布了分步指南，以帮助驾驶员
in choosing a vehicle
选择即将
coming up Britain's car crisis isn't
到来的车辆 英国的汽车危机
just hurting us in our wallets it may
不仅伤害了我们的钱包，还可能
also jeopardize our shift to Greener
危及我们向更环保、
cleaner electric cars are we doing
更清洁的电动汽车的转变，我们是否做了
enough to help consumers get into
足够的努力来帮助消费者购买负担
affordable electric cars I don't think
得起的电动汽车，我不认为
we are I think people need to be able to
我们做到了，我认为人们需要能够
afford to make this transition and it
负担得起这种转变，而且
not be at the expense of their family
不以牺牲他们的家庭
budget
预算为代价，
and is Britain heading for a car prize
英国是否正在走向汽车价格
crash like we've seen before with the
崩溃，就像我们之前在
housing market there are warning flags
房地产市场上看到的那样，那里有警告信号，
there for all of us to basically prepare
我们所有人基本上都要做好
ourselves to avoid a situation like we
准备 避免出现 2008 年那样的情况
saw in 2008
with enormous waiting list for new cars
新车等候名单庞大，
and the price of some secondhand
一些二手车的价格
Vehicles going through the roof
飞涨
Britain's car crisis is certainly
英国的汽车危机无疑正在
hitting us in our pockets
打击我们的口袋
but it's also threatening our health
但它也威胁着我们 健康，
and says it's determined to improve air
并表示决心
quality by baling the sale of new petrol
and diesel cars from 2030.
从 2030 年开始减少新汽油和柴油汽车的销售，以改善空气质量。
it's country is going to be one of the
该国将成为
first countries in the world a fan new
世界上首批购买新
petrol car did you know that
汽油车的国家之一。你知道吗？
the drivers wanting to switch to an
司机们 想要改用
electric car like this Are Nothing Like
这样的电动汽车是
Us fortunate as some of their European
幸运的，因为去年 12 月，一些欧洲
counterparts everyone in Britain buying
同行在英国购买一辆
a new electric car under sixty thousand
六万英镑以下的新电动汽车
pounds used to receive a government
时曾获得
grant of up to two and a half thousand
高达二千五千英镑的政府补助金
last December this was cut to 1500
削减至 1500
pounds and only remained for cars
英镑，仅保留价格
costing less than 32 000.
低于 32 000 英镑的汽车。6
in June the government scrapped the
月，政府
ground altogether electric car drivers
完全取消了电动汽车的使用权。一些欧洲国家的电动汽车司机
in some of the European countries do
much better in Luxembourg they get up to
在卢森堡的表现要好得多，他们
8 000 Euros for buying Electric in Spain
在西班牙购买电动车可获得高达 8 000 欧元的补贴
up to 7 000 Euros and in Romania they
到 7,000 欧元，在罗马尼亚，他们
can get a whopping 10 000 Euros in fact
可以获得高达 10,000 欧元，事实上，有
13 EU countries give incentives to buy
13 个欧盟国家提供购买
electric cars all of them larger than
电动汽车的激励措施，所有这些都比
the grant the British government has
英国政府
just scrapped and when you consider the
刚刚取消的补助金还要高，当你考虑
withdrawal of the government grants and
撤回政府补助金时，
the rising cost of new cars it's little
新车成本不断上涨，
wonder that many petrol and Diesel
难怪许多汽油和柴油车
drivers may be reluctant to jump behind
司机现在可能不愿意跳上
the wheel of an electric car right now
电动汽车的方向盘后，
the consumer magazine which has
消费者杂志对
conducted a survey into the Public's
公众
attitudes towards electric cars
对电动汽车
dispatches has been given exclusive
调度的态度进行了调查，并获得了独家
access and it has good news and bad for
访问权限 对于
the government in its phase to drive out
政府在
sales of petrol and Diesel by 2030.
2030 年之前停止汽油和柴油销售的阶段来说，这有好消息也有坏消息。
we found that a third of people would
我们发现三分之一的人会
consider electric and that's mainly
考虑电动汽车，这主要是
because they want something that's good
因为他们想要一种
for the environment and cheaper on their
对环境有利且价格便宜的东西
fuel costs then we looked at people who
然后我们研究了那些
weren't considering an electric car and
不考虑购买电动汽车的人，
the reasons why and the top reason there
以及其中的首要原因，即
was just The Upfront costs because
前期成本，因为
they're so much more expensive than
它们比
petrol driven cars last year people's
去年的汽油驱动汽车贵得多，这是人们
main reason for not changing to Electric
不改用电动汽车的主要原因 电动汽车
was there worry over how far an electric
曾经一度担心电动
car could travel on a single charge now
汽车一次充电可以行驶多远，现在
cost is people's main fear that's bound
成本是人们主要担心的问题，这势必
to make the government's job to get us
会让政府的工作让我们
all driving electric cars much harder
所有人驾驶电动汽车变得更加困难，
while we're seeing the a doubling of
同时我们看到
electric car sales within the used car
电动汽车销量翻了一番 在二手车
market it's not increasing fast enough
市场中，它的增长速度不够快，
it's a very small percentage of that
在总增长中只占很小的比例，
total biggest increases have been on a
最大的增长是在
lot of the cheapest models so people on
许多最便宜的车型上，所以
the lowest incomes looking to to buy a
收入最低的人想要购买一辆
new car we're in a situation where it's
新车，我们处于这样的情况：
just not affordable at the moment
目前还无法负担
the main reason for the government's
政府制定
2030 electric Target is to reduce
2030 年电动目标的主要原因是减少
emissions including carbon dioxide
排放，包括二氧化碳排放。
dispatchers asked which to calculate the
调度员要求计算
environmental effect of so many new
petrol and diesel cars still being sold
仍在销售的大量新汽油和柴油汽车对环境的影响，
and their findings are worrying if 2021
他们的调查结果令人担忧，如果 2021 年 就
had been purely electric cars sold we
售出的纯电动汽车而言，我们
would have taken 3 million tons of CO2
out of the tailpipes every single year
每年可以从排气管中去除 300 万吨二氧化碳，
for just that one year's worth of cars
仅用于一年的汽车，
which is a huge chunk of our total
output of the country just for tailpipe
仅用于尾气排放就占我们国家总产量的很大一部分，
exhausts though there are other
尽管还有其他
environmental impacts and that
环境影响
electricity does have to be produced
电力确实必须
somewhere but at the tailpipe that's
在某个地方产生，但在尾气管处会
three million tons less and if you think
少 300 万吨，如果你认为
three million tons of carbon dioxide
300 万吨二氧化碳
sounds like a lot well it is it would
听起来很多，那么
take 144 million trees to absorb it it's
需要 1.44 亿棵树才能吸收它，这是
the amount produced when we heat 1.1
当我们 为 110
million British households for a year
万英国家庭提供一年的热量，
it's the equivalent of 6 hundred and
相当于
fifty thousand of us flying around the
65 万人环游世界
world
flying to Neptune in the farthest
飞往太阳系最远的海王星，
reaches of the solar system and coming
然后
back again are we doing enough to help
再返回，我们是否做了足够的努力来帮助
consumers get into affordable electric
消费者购买价格实惠的电动
cars I don't think we are I think people
汽车 我不认为我们是这样的，我认为人们
need to be able to afford to make this
需要有能力承担这种
transition and it not be at the expense
转变，而且这不能以牺牲
of their family budget
他们的家庭预算为代价，
the department for transport told
运输部门告诉
dispatches Electric Vehicle drivers
调度员，电动汽车司机可以
enjoy significant Savings in running
享受显着的运行
costs often exceeding the 1 500 pound
成本节省，通常超过1 价值 500 英镑
value of the grant alongside generous
的补助金以及
incentives such as zero Road tax which
零道路税等慷慨的激励措施，
can save drivers over two thousand
pounds a year the transition to zero
每年可以为驾驶员节省超过 2000 英镑，向零
emission Vehicles continues to
排放车辆的过渡继续
accelerate and in 2021 we saw a 77
加速，2021 年我们的
increase in sales compared with 2020.
销售额比 2020 年增长了 77。
car prices May remain very high but the
汽车价格可能仍然很高，但
latest data shows that they're leveling
最新数据显示，它们正在趋于平稳，
off great news you might think but it's
你可能会认为这是个好消息，但这
actually because of another broadside
实际上是因为汽车市场的另一次全面
hitting the car market the cost of
打击，
living crisis some people are getting
生活成本危机，一些人
nervous about changing their car and
对更换汽车和
experts in the field of predicting that
专家感到紧张 在预测
we may well see a crashing car prices
我们很可能会看到汽车价格暴跌的领域，
similar to the ones we've seen in the
类似于我们过去看到的
past with house prices there are warning
房价暴跌，那里有警告
flags there for all of us to basically
信号，让我们所有人基本上
prepare ourselves to avoid a situation
做好准备，避免出现
like we saw in 2008 and I think what we
像我们在 2008 年看到的情况， 我认为，
can see now with the cost of living
随着生活成本的增加，我们现在可以看到的
increasing is that a warning if you like
是，如果你
for people to avoid getting into too
希望人们避免陷入
much debt avoid getting into leases that
过多的债务，避免签订
they can't potentially afford maybe
他们可能负担不起的租赁，也许会
stepping back and not taking that new
退一步，不买新车，
car but take the the used car instead a
但是，这是一个警告 选择二手车，
price crash would be good news for
价格暴跌对于第一次想买车的人来说是个好消息，
people wanting to buy a car for the
first time but would leave Millions of
但会让数百万
motorists thousands of pounds out of
驾车者损失数千英镑，
pocket so are there any solutions out
那么有没有任何解决方案
there to help the hard-pressed British
可以帮助陷入困境的英国人
motorist well the free
自由驾驶者
have come up with one
已经想出了一款
meet the all-electric Citron Army a
满足全电动Citron Army的
little Urban run around that costs 7 700
城市小跑，
pounds on its payment plan this car
其付款计划花费7700英镑，这辆车
costs 19 pounds 99 a month
每月花费19英镑99英镑，
so how do they make it so cheap well for
那么他们是如何让它如此便宜的呢？
a start it's not officially a car at all
它根本不是一辆正式的汽车，
it's a quadric cycle and it has
它是一辆四轮车，它有
interchangeable doors a symmetrical
可互换的车门，
front and back and a very basic interior
前后对称，内饰非常基本，
with a top speed of 28 miles an hour
最高时速为 28 英里，
it's not going to please everybody but
它不会让所有人满意，但
whether we like it or not the electric
无论我们是否喜欢，电动车
Revolution is coming and it might well
革命即将到来，也许是
be time to rethink how and what we drive
时候重新思考我们如何以及驱动什么
外国外国
thank you
谢谢