Petition

[Bianco2564]

6 hours ago, dynax said:

Perhaps there should be a petition to stop manufacturers making excessively powerful vehicles , and all older vehicles fitted with a mandatory limiter, and if it gets removed or is tampered with instant imprisonment.

My 2003 M3 already has a speed limiter, its set at 155mph and I promise not to tamper with it.

Edited February 5, 2021 by Bianco2564
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[dynax]

I have had so many cars I can't even remember how many I have actually owned.

 

I have had Bmw, Mercedes, and I will freely admit they were bought as status symbol ego boost etc, my first Bmw was a brand new 325i convertible that I bought with an inheritence, that was just bought as a pose mobile, my Mercedes was a 300se with full leather trim.

 

By far the 2 best ones I have had were mk3/4 Escort van 1.6 diesel had 4 in total, the last one I had for 10 years and covered over 1/2 a million miles in it, and a Fiat Panda 4x4 that at one point carried a full pallet worth of bricks in it.

 

Having been at both ends of the spectrum I don't need to boost my ego been there done that, I prefer to look at the practical and most beneficial side now. Maybe i'm just becoming more cynical as I get older, but over the years I have learned often the hard way, there are more important things the main one being true to yourself.

 

 

[Bender]

@dynax 

Shuō dé hǎo

[S-Westerly]

2 hours ago, Bender said:

@dynax 

Shuō dé hǎo

Que??

[Bender]

11 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

Que??

Well said lol

 

I thought dynax would have been conversant in Chinese  

[Bianco2564]

On 06/02/2021 at 08:38, dynax said:

I have had so many cars I can't even remember how many I have actually owned.

 

I have had Bmw, Mercedes, and I will freely admit they were bought as status symbol ego boost etc, my first Bmw was a brand new 325i convertible that I bought with an inheritence, that was just bought as a pose mobile, my Mercedes was a 300se with full leather trim.

 

By far the 2 best ones I have had were mk3/4 Escort van 1.6 diesel had 4 in total, the last one I had for 10 years and covered over 1/2 a million miles in it, and a Fiat Panda 4x4 that at one point carried a full pallet worth of bricks in it.

 

Having been at both ends of the spectrum I don't need to boost my ego been there done that, I prefer to look at the practical and most beneficial side now. Maybe i'm just becoming more cynical as I get older, but over the years I have learned often the hard way, there are more important things the main one being true to yourself.

 

 

Interesting, I've also had plenty of shonky cars and bikes in 4 decades on the road.

 

I see the petition is at 85000 so it might get its day in parliament.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

Nostalgia makes my cheap as chips mini of 25years ago the best care Ive owned. Realism makes it an automatic Mercedes. 

[S-Westerly]

Our first car was absolutely vile. It was a pass on from my mother in law when the retired. A Volvo 66 and it was awful. I wrote it off on the old Liverpool Dock Road when it skidded on diesel into a container wagon. Best thing that ever happened to it. Course I had to explain this to my wife who was more attached to it than I was. She always has had a thing for lost causes.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

5 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

Our first car was absolutely vile. It was a pass on from my mother in law when the retired. A Volvo 66 and it was awful. I wrote it off on the old Liverpool Dock Road when it skidded on diesel into a container wagon. Best thing that ever happened to it. Course I had to explain this to my wife who was more attached to it than I was. She always has had a thing for lost causes.

I remember those things, based on the DAF cars with CVT, horrible but built from steel that was about three inches thick. They were incredibly heavy but also extraordinarily strong. 

 

I worked in a backstreet garage where there was a dealership in DAF. A lady in the showroom once pushed the lever into drive and stomped on the throttle having no idea what would happen.

 

It took off like a scalded cat and demolished the entire side of the showroom. The car was hardly dented.

[S-Westerly]

1 hour ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I remember those things, based on the DAF cars with CVT, horrible but built from steel that was about three inches thick. They were incredibly heavy but also extraordinarily strong. 

 

I worked in a backstreet garage where there was a dealership in DAF. A lady in the showroom once pushed the lever into drive and stomped on the throttle having no idea what would happen.

 

It took off like a scalded cat and demolished the entire side of the showroom. The car was hardly dented.

It's other hideous idiosyncrasy was if a lump of clay got jammed in the throttle cable the only way to stop it was to switch off the ignition. 

[Gerontious]

I see the petition has now passed the threshold for a possible debate on the question in parliament. With over 100,000 signatures.