Possible ban on all cars over 10 years old!

dandan · Post by **dandan** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:56 pm

Article

Petition

C2K · Post by **C2K** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:04 pm

Sack that, just make it illegal for polish and lithuainian cars to enter town centres, job done.

Post by **< KEVIN >** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:22 pm

SAVE THE PLANET !

Sack the Government.

can see it happening, thought it wouldn't surprise me

-Alex- · Post by **-Alex-** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:23 pm

What a joke

rover400turbo · Post by **rover400turbo** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:37 pm

Looks like the motor industry is worried about its car sales falling.

The fact that a car engine over 10 years service ( if correctly maintained ) puts out less CO2 than it takes to manufacture one car isnt considered.

There is an arugument to make the MOT test better, to remove cars of any age off the road that falls below a set standard.

Most classic , modified and show cars of 10-30years old are so well cared for that they are not the problem.

C2K · Post by **C2K** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 am

rover400turbo wrote: There is an arugument to make the MOT test better, to remove cars of any age off the road that falls below a set standard.

Trouble with that is, the honest people like me get screwed over by having to spend that bit extra to 'fix' things to get the ticket, whilst bob the builder in his 24 year old transit van with more rust than paint pays Joe the MOT tester to have a drive through MOT.

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:36 am

This will never happen! Look what the Queen gets chauffeured around in!

Aquila · Post by **Aquila** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:28 am

I own older cars because new ones are overweight, oversize, gutless sacks of sh!te.
The longer a car provides efficient service, the lower its 'dust-to-dust' cost in resources and energy. Whilst I do not subscribe in any way to the climate change scam, I do utterly detest waste.

Post by **Punx0r** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:33 am

Hear hear!

Chin. · Post by **Chin.** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:35 am

C2K wrote:Sack that, just make it illegal for polish and lithuainian cars to enter town centres, job done.

and....
Ukrainian [ spelling ? ]
Czech
Slovakian

C2K · Post by **C2K** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:46 am

Marcin wrote:
C2K wrote:Sack that, just make it illegal for polish and lithuainian cars to enter town centres, job done.

and....
Ukrainian [ spelling ? ]
Czech
Slovakian

Don't get them in Peterborough just yet.

richard moss · Post by **richard moss** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:14 am

The article refers to an experiment in Stuttgart - and assumes that we will do the same.

It's fairly safe to say that this is a non-story created by semi-p1ssed journos who are too lazy to leave the bar to check any facts, so just read foreign press releases and make this crap up.

Nom · Post by **Nom** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:24 am

C2K wrote:Sack that, just make it illegal for polish and lithuainian cars to enter town centres, job done.

This may be fair comment in the area in which you live but in West London which has a huge Polish population they tend to drive old Rovers on English plates or older Beemers/Mercs which they look after and their standard of driving is mostly better than the 4 X 4 brigade doing the school run.

Having said that, I do regard any foreign or diplomatic plate with the deepest suspicion, its common sense to do so IMO.
Dobre Vietchkou... and apologies to Marcin and others if I've cocked up the spelling.

Chin. · Post by **Chin.** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:19 pm

Dobre means good , no idea what Vietchkou means tho

Roboscot · Post by **Roboscot** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:14 pm

Aquila wrote:I own older cars because new ones are overweight, oversize, gutless sacks of sh!te.

Ditto. Add 'characterless' to that too.

Post by **< KEVIN >** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:17 pm

Roboscot wrote:
Aquila wrote:I own older cars because new ones are overweight, oversize, gutless sacks of sh!te.
Ditto. Add 'characterless' to that too.

plus mega oversized dashboards!

Nom · Post by **Nom** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:21 am

Dobry wieczou - Good evening

Chin. · Post by **Chin.** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:55 am

DOBRY WIECZÃ’R

yes , there are some wierd letters in our alphabet

calibrax · Post by **calibrax** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:52 am

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:35 am

... are the first three consonant columns all W, C, Z, X and Y?