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21st April 2017, 18:33 | #21 |
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Not a good deal.
You take the money, you buy a new car on finance, it loses the two grand as you turn the key for the first time, then you pay £400 per month for the privilege of having a new plated car for six months. That said, I'm in favour of all polluting Diesels and Petrol cars being scrapped. I want it to also apply to filthy old buses and trucks, I then want to see newer aircraft in the skies, a lot of the aircraft up there are over thirty years old and, a major reason why our Summers are getting worse.
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21st April 2017, 18:58 | #22 |
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None of my cars will be going anywhere.
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21st April 2017, 19:32 | #23 |
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21st April 2017, 19:57 | #24 | |
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A fool and his money...
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And on that subject why would I swap my mid-sized comfy saloon for a tinny underpowered uncomfortable compact? Where would * put all my gear when I go on holiday etc...? On the roof? or pull a trailer? both of which would severely effect the economy of whatever it is? To buy a new car that could compete I'd be looking at £36 - £49 thousand pounds! £2k trade in on the old motor isn't going to convince me - even if you add another £500 a year to the running costs of the current vehicle. Besides, since when did motor vehicle enthusiasts rate their vehicle purely on ownership costs? Most restorations of old vehicles end up costing more than the vehicle is worth when finished as it is. Save Save Save
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21st April 2017, 19:58 | #25 |
Posted a thing or two
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Just come back from the pub, sat in Gilbert in my Cowley cdt, listened to some sixties music, and caressed the walnut steering wheel and thought I love this car, and if I end up just keeping it in my garage and stopping its unnecessary scrappage that will do for me, I the hope that common sense will prevail in times to come, but Gilbert the mighty Rover is staying with me.
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21st April 2017, 20:16 | #26 |
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Of course, the other side is that, as already suggested, a scrappage scheme may artificially raise the value of the diesel cars and as I'm now averaging less than 20 miles a week and we still have the 1.8T tourer.....
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21st April 2017, 20:20 | #27 |
Gets stuck in
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Yes Brian I agree you know what your doing but the 1.8 curse can strike anywhere, anytime and anyone.
BTW Im selling my 190 and buying a gross polluter before there all gone!
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21st April 2017, 21:11 | #28 |
I really should get out more.......
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What ever the government do it is a mere drop in the ocean, even if we all drove the most environmentally friendly vehicles available it will have little or no effect on the environment.
The aircraft you get on to go on holiday puts more CO2 into the atmosphere in that one trip than your car will do in its entire life. Then you have economies like India, China and the like that have little or care of what they are putting into the environment. Then you have the US, well if we all lived like the average US citizen we would need 22 planets. Sorry to sound negative on the latest environmental saving campaign but it is to little to have any effect. |
21st April 2017, 21:23 | #29 |
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I'm sure I read somewhere that if you took ALL the older diesel cars off the road you would only reduce NOX levels by 20 % ...
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21st April 2017, 21:33 | #30 |
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something similar was quoted on some programme or other ..20% of pollution down to diesel cars etc etc ...ten someone replied keep the diesels and scrap everything else ...
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