Always thought this idea of a spacesaver or no spare at all was a ridiculous idea , even when I had the Omega I purchased a matching alloy.
It’s the EU again, innit? No spare wheel=better fuel economy. It’s a load of big, hairy bollix...but there you go.
.....but don't worry because a can of foam will easily fix a blowout. 
We all know it won’t fix anything other than a pinhole, and that a lot of tyre places will then refuse to repair the tyre.
It’s actually a very good example of how dysfunctional the EU is. Taking stuff like fuel economy to such a level as to make it ridiculous. The manufacturers were all in favour because it saved them the cost of a spare wheel and tyre, and it improved their mpg and CO2 figures............by about 100 yards and a millionth of a gram respectively.
The EU is not dysfunctional at all, it worked as intended. The EU job is jobs for the political and commission boys and girls and looking after them with very high salaries, special tax rates, special subsidized (Soviet style) shops for their exclusive use and generous pensions and expenses. Now the politicians obviously need pampering that much more than ordinary commission officials as they are even more important and this is done through special meetings and conferences at 5* hotels and conference centres with lavish banquets, but these only happen once in a while. So for day-to-day pampering and regular
working holidays trade conferences you need corporate lobbying the biggest and most expensive game in Brussels. So the EU Car Makers Space Savers Working Group employ a lobbying company to wine and dine key officials and brief them on the energy and weight savings and reduced plant foot generation advantages of space saving wheels or a can of goo. This gets them closer to the numbers they need to get this regulation introduced by the commission and passed in the EU Parliament, but the vote looks close at the end of January, so the EU Car Makers Space Savers Working Group organise a week long conference at the beginning of January at a 5/6* star hotel somewhere like Dubai, Caribbean or even Australia so you fully understand the advantages of space saving wheels or no spare wheel and as a result more see the clear advantages to EU
consumers car makers of a space saver wheel or a tin of puncture repair goo. This is how the corporate/oligarchy EU commission capture system works and it does work very well.
So why would the car companies go to all this trouble of spending say €2m on funding the EU Car Makers Space Savers Working Group. There are 18.4m cars produced in the EU every year. Now lets say it costs €21 for the average full size wheel and tyre, €11 for a pressed tin, small tyre space saver wheel or €1 for a tin of goo. All manufacturers can save between €10-20 by going the space saver or goo route which is a collective extra profit of €184-368m profit EVERY YEAR. What is there not to like, the EU Commission are looked after and the car makers boost their profits.
What about the 500m
plebs citizens that make up the EU, well they will continue paying their taxes, they will continue buying new cars they have no choice and if the space saver means crawling home or not getting home where the goo doen't work it's not as if you can be a threat to the EU their pseudo-democracy makes sure of that.
The only thing has put a spanner in the EU works is Brexit and although they have been trying through many avenues to force a second referendum and also constantly undermine the UK's negotiating position in the exit talks, so far they have failed on both.
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