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jimmacD said:
I working on the theory that the Parliament's Classic car club (used for opinion on things such as Classic tax etc..) will lobby to save classics, possibly pre 80s when legislation, possibly in the form of a National buy back scrappage scheme comes into affect and we all get pushed into electric cars. By which time I will either be dead or able to drive my fossil fuel pride and joy for one day a month! Older vehicles stand less chance of the exchequer pricing them off the road. My theory is that they will stick with the 2001- cut off and hit stuff pre 2001, first being diesels. I posted a comment a few months back re the demise of diesel, ruffled a few feathers.... diesel will not die! Funnily enough that night there was an interview with LR CEO about Brexit... his comment.. "more concerned with the demise of the internal combustion engine than Brexit!"
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Post 2001 will get hit?
 
Datatek said:
We have a 34 year old Renault, my 33 year old MR2 and 2 running P38's plus an old Transit. I used to design electronic systems, I wouldn't touch any of the new stuff with a barge pole, design life expectancy is just long enough to make it to the end of the warranty. The down side of our old cars is we can no longer drive to family in Paris, old cars are banned.
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I lived in California for a few years and ran around in "classics" they weren't then, just cheap motors. The annual SMOG check was a laugh, if you failed, you passed! Theory being.. if you failed then your car must be old and knackered and therefore you are poor, too poor to pay for repairs... so have this one on us. I think they should introduce this to UK.. oh yeah they have! If you own a "classic car" you must be a person of substance who can afford to maintain it to the highest standards... they obviously haven't been to any local of our local classic car shows. I am hoping that the dwindling numbers of pre 2001 cars on the road will keep the Government off our backs as they chase the newer stuff? It is ironic that Paris is banning zero carbon older cars in favour of newer stuff with huge initial Carbon foot prints... may be lower emissions but not in the grand scheme.
 
jimmacD said:
I could pick flowers as my old RRs went around corners at speed but never worried about them leaving the road. Our roads in Lincolnshire are sh1te, the L322 doesn't seem to soak up the bumps the way the P38 did. The L322 has less over steer but seems to dive more into corners at speed and I find myself easing off on the power. It is on standard alloys, did think about going up in size with a lower profile tyre but our pot holes will just murder them. Guess I will just have to live with it.
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I think the ride is typically German hard on the L322. Nowhere as supple as the P38.
 
jimmacD said:
Citroen is like LR, when it works, it works well! I think most comfort/drive reviews are only done from the driver's seat, as a passenger I often don't get it when my In-law bangs on about the ride of his Jaaaaaaaaag as my face gets smacked against the window as we hit another pot hole or struggle to keep the vomit down as a roller coaster passenger in the back! Its only when my Wife drives that I realise that her Peugeot is more comfortable than the RR and how oblivious I am to my passengers comfort as I Lord it over the peasants in their Euroboxes!
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Wrong wheels/tyres. My Jag ride is superb. Not low profile though, just 17" rims.
 
Datatek said:
Power just for the sake of it is pointless. It would cruise at an indicated 120mph which is plenty on UK roads.
I could out corner Bulldog Astons at Silversone in my little F750 race car.
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Overtaking is where I find it useful, usually behind some duffer that does 47mph regardless of speed limit or indications.
 
Datatek said:
I think the ride is typically German hard on the L322. Nowhere as supple as the P38.
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Defo not the ride I was expecting, yes it is silky smooth on A roads but soon gets a bit harsh on our lanes. Wife tells me we all have to go Vegan if we want to save the planet... like to see the Chinese go Vegan!
 
Datatek said:
My XJS had a very good ride.
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Don't see many about these days, friend has a cabrio with an horedous TWR body kit, such a shame. Looked at buying one years ago as a second car. I always thought the straight six was more than enough for the GT. Had a few XJ40 myself... like Alfas and Land Rovers, you got to at some point if your a true petrol head. They made the Range Rover look like the ultimate in reliability, the XJ40 wasn't a great car. They seem to be making good money these days, not sure why as they were bloody awful cars? Paris must be serious about polution if it's banning the old diesel!
 
jimmacD said:
Don't see many about these days, friend has a cabrio with an horedous TWR body kit, such a shame. Looked at buying one years ago as a second car. I always thought the straight six was more than enough for the GT. Had a few XJ40 myself... like Alfas and Land Rovers, you got to at some point if your a true petrol head. They made the Range Rover look like the ultimate in reliability, the XJ40 wasn't a great car. They seem to be making good money these days, not sure why as they were bloody awful cars? Paris must be serious about polution if it's banning the old diesel!
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Paris is also banning or restricting old petrol cars although slightly older petrol cars are allowed than diesel.
With 8,000 plus civil aircraft in the skies over Europe raining particulates down, there is more that needs to be done.
A modern car with 500bhp V8 idling in a traffic jam produces a lot more pollution than my old P38 methinks.
 
Datatek said:
Paris is also banning or restricting old petrol cars although slightly older petrol cars are allowed than diesel.
With 8,000 plus civil aircraft in the skies over Europe raining particulates down, there is more that needs to be done.
A modern car with 500bhp V8 idling in a traffic jam produces a lot more pollution than my old P38 methinks.
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It is all, excuse the pun, smoke and mirrors! We are encouraged to recycle everything except cars? You can make new cars from recycled materials, which as we know produces zero emissions either in the manufacturing process or providing the electricity and infrastructure to run them? There seems to be no move towards retro fitting old cars... upcycling? Its all a fecking con to keep the big cats in profit..... don't get me on drinking straws and the Oceans!
 
jimmacD said:
It is all, excuse the pun, smoke and mirrors! We are encouraged to recycle everything except cars? You can make new cars from recycled materials, which as we know produces zero emissions either in the manufacturing process or providing the electricity and infrastructure to run them? There seems to be no move towards retro fitting old cars... upcycling? Its all a fecking con to keep the big cats in profit..... don't get me on drinking straws and the Oceans!
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So, what about those drinking straws and those ocean things then?:p
 
Mark Piercy said:
So, what about those drinking straws and those ocean things then?:p
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Moved on from drinking straws... Had heated discussions last night with Wife and Daughter, apparently it's the Cows which are causing the global warming! We should get rid of Cows and all become Vegans! Imagine a world with however many billions of flatulent Humans?
 
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