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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 2:19 am
by Jeff
They are getting ready to do it in Cambridge, then where?
Oh its lovely here in Ontario at the moment, Look at all those gas guzzlers!
And the air? Oh is so clean!
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 6:39 am
by SteveCase
Jeff, go and sit on the glass floor in the CN Tower!!!!
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 7:21 am
by latil
I presume no one is going to pay £25 to attend the Chelsea cruise?
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 8:46 am
by Blue
No charge at weekends...
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 8:51 am
by Anonymous
Jeff wrote:
Oh its lovely here in Ontario at the moment, Look at all those gas guzzlers!
You need to keep up with current affairs mate
There is new legislation coming your way.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 3:50 pm
by Jeff
Damn, will it get in the way of the 4 race strips?
Seriously, I have never seen such a big car scene as here! They are well into it. And remember, I used to live in the states. If they tried to interfere with the hot rod scene here, there would be lynchings!
Off to the Mopar store now....
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 3:58 pm
by Anonymous
I was reading an article on MSN last night Jeff, apparently there are going to be MPG targets for all manufacturers with penalties if they fail to achieve them. Some feel this might spell the end of the big engined performance American vehicle in time.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 08 9:01 pm
by Jeff
I can see that happening everywhere! Including UK. Tell you what, just popped into Canadian tyre, big department store that sells stuff aimed at men... Walked up to car counter and asked if they had head gaskets, and intake gaskets for a 69 273ci.... No problem sir, £15 later new set of felpro gaskets very happy.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 08 9:46 am
by Kev
SteveB wrote:the legalities of Livingstones policies need studying.
I absolutely agree - I only wish I had the time to study that, but after the Government has done with taxing my ass I am hard pressed to earn enough to keep going what I've already got.
I just wrote a cheque for £17,000 tax and that is just for half of this year and so now they are going to charge me extra tax if I drive to London (so I can earn more of the money they already tax me on).
I had a gig in London last week and transport wise it was a "drive or train" option for me. Amazingly the train fare I paid for a day return from Exeter to London was £184 (standard class).
What the ...... is going on ?
Was watching a rerun of Top Gear yeaserday to see Glynn's Charger again and they did that thing where they bought cars for £100, gassed them up and went to Manchester and back cheaper than on the train.....No congestion charge though.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 08 10:28 am
by Charger
Clivey wrote:I was reading an article on MSN last night Jeff, apparently there are going to be MPG targets for all manufacturers with penalties if they fail to achieve them. Some feel this might spell the end of the big engined performance American vehicle in time.
saw a piece on the tv news a couple of days ago, some Lord or other was banging on that all cars that do less than 35mpg should be banned, guess what he was driving, a Prius, might do more than 35mpg but the environmental impact of building the damn things is phenomenal
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 08 11:01 am
by Anonymous
I would be quite happy for that ban to go ahead, if I was given the oppertunity of driving that Prius up his Lordships bottom at about 70mph, having previously covered the whole car in carpet layers gripper rod.
His lordship might think a little differently about life after that episode I'll warrant.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 08 1:08 pm
by Charger
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 08 1:35 pm
by Ivor
Clivey wrote:I would be quite happy for that ban to go ahead, if I was given the oppertunity of driving that Prius up his Lordships bottom at about 70mph, having previously covered the whole car in carpet layers gripper rod.
His lordship might think a little differently about life after that episode I'll warrant.
What a splendidly constructive comment and a carefully thought out solution nobs who make silly comments like that.
Bravo!
