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[Nickbat]

What a very daft proposal:

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/10/17/rac-cars-over-18-years-old-should-be-scrapped/

 

[kris9128]

got 2 words for the rac. GET F*CK*D.  

[tmx]

well they can get f***D most diesels made before 2000 dont have cats either will these be scrapped?

RAC should keep there opinions to themselves old cars keep them in buisness ! stupid idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I am with the AA and I have just been reminded why!!

[Pitchfork]

well they can get f***D most diesels made before 2000 dont have cats either will these be scrapped?

RAC should keep there opinions to themselves old cars keep them in buisness ! stupid idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My 1996 Traktor has a Cat!

[STMO123]

We're talking pre 1990 cars here. Surely there cant be that many.

[kris9128]

We're talking pre 1990 cars here. Surely there cant be that many.

my ex father in law has 3 beautiful classic jags including an exceptional mk2/ inspector morse. all have been lovingly restored and not a mark on any of them. who do the rac think they are to say they should be scrapped. tw*ts

[Danny]

my girlfriends pride and joy Mk2 golf is 18 years old

[STMO123]

We're talking pre 1990 cars here. Surely there cant be that many.

my ex father in law has 3 beautiful classic jags including an exceptional mk2/ inspector morse. all have been lovingly restored and not a mark on any of them. who do the rac think they are to say they should be scrapped. tw*ts

I'm pretty sure they dont mean those. They're classics. But there should be a law that says he has to give one of them to me.

[waspy]

"Of course there are a small number of classic cars that wouldn't likely be scrapped under any plan, but the real plan is to get old cars that are driven daily off the roads"

So in a nut shell this quote means no more future classics, because they'll ALL be scrapped. Just like if you don't live in a house & pay council tax on it for a set time, the authorities can legally take your house from you & not pay you a penny, so the same will happen with your beloved car. I have a future classic that is not MOTed, insured or taxed & so it will fall into said quote.

[Dusty]

I used to belong to the RAC until a few years ago when they became a public company. Instead of giving all their members part of the profit they decided to give it to just the original members who happened to be members of the board.

When the AA did the same a few years later they gave all their members around £200(approx)

I've been with the AA ever since.

[Tony H]

What a load of b*llocks just compare the carbon footprint of keeping a well maintained and serviced 20 year old car on the road with the carbon emmitions related to the production, manufacture and distribution of a brand new car.

[unlucky alf]

well thank god the cavemen saw sense & dumped their old cars, after all its been proven that Co2 levels were higher then than they are now, total cr4p just to raise taxes, & this RAC chap must be after a peerage or something as he sounds like he has been enrolled to promote this global scam by a corrupt government carbon footprint my 4rse.

[HerefordElite]

What a load of b*llocks just compare the carbon footprint of keeping a well maintained and serviced 20 year old car on the road with the carbon emmitions related to the production, manufacture and distribution of a brand new car.

absolutely - it's such a load of oppsing bullshit  

[Kevin Wood]

What worries me is that people can publish this sort of Horsesh1t these days and, because it has some unproven dubious link to nut munching they are not publically lampooned for their total stupidity. It's become politically incorrect to question anything for fear of appearing at odds with the great religion that has arisen around green issues.

The key piece of information missing from this report is what percentage of total emissions comes from cars over 18 years old. I'd hazard a guess that it's the root of break all, so the measure will therefore do - you guessed it - break all.

I would imagine, with fields full of unsold new cars beginning to appear, that this piece of research was generously funded by the motor industry.

Kevin