Will be 100 years before oil/petrol runs out.
Classic cars gets driven so infrequently, not sure if it's worth switching?
Quite a novelty, but I prefer old school engines.
it is not a matter of what you prefer, they ar building quite a bunch of regulations
it is not a matter of what you prefer, they ar building quite a bunch of regulations
On new cars. 2040 is still quite a way's out as far as buying a new car.
I'm sure gas engines on used cars that people already own will be phased out long after I'm dead.
Legally, the UK seems to increasingly support classic cars. This includes, inter alia, nil car tax, exemption from annual inspections, exemptions from emissions requirements and reduced duty on importing important classic cars. Legislation is coming, and I would agree that it is going to be faster than anyone thinks. Electric power is too compelling but for classics it is an abomination equivalent to replacing the arms on the Venus de Milo. I am reminded of a quote from Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
It seems sooner rather than later, 2019??, most of the classic car people who reside on the Continent are going to wish they lived in the UK. In spite of a hard or soft Brexit. What de'Q has outlined above is nothing short of regulatory authority run amok in the hands/minds of pinhead Zealots.i agree, i am sorry to say there is no culture of classic cars in spain, nothing, not only cars, not to mention old machinery (BTW all the water pump system in Bilbao was carried from the uk and settled here around 1890 it was that renovation, hidraulic marvels from nineteenth century pathetically abandoned and lost forever), tools, ....anything brand new is always better than old stuff (that is their motto)
here the ultimate consideration of normal people in the street is that you are sort of a rich idiot showing off your expensive and contaminant piece of junk, so if the government screw you up is well done, there will be no sympathies
noone will consider that you are saving, at your lonely expense, a piece of automotive history...
i agree, i am sorry to say there is no culture of classic cars in spain, nothing, not only cars, not to mention old machinery (BTW all the water pump system in Bilbao was carried from the uk and settled here around 1890 it was that renovation, hidraulic marvels from nineteenth century pathetically abandoned and lost forever), tools, ....anything brand new is always better than old stuff (that is their motto)
here the ultimate consideration of normal people in the street is that you are sort of a rich idiot showing off your expensive and contaminant piece of junk, so if the government screw you up is well done, there will be no sympathies
noone will consider that you are saving, at your lonely expense, a piece of automotive history...
When mechanical devices are all replaced with computer based devices, we will no longer have this freedom. We will become totally dependent on whoever controls the computers.
I'm glad I live in Texas where you can drive gas-guzzling cars, shoot unregistered weapons in your back yard, mix up a savory batch of crystal meth and date your first cousin without anyone looking at you in the least bit strange.2040 is one thing, but traffic restrictions are scheduled here for 2019 !
...you will not be allowed to enter city centres (paris, munich, barcelona, madrid,...+others that i do not know), ...and petrol will be more and more expensive, ...and you willl have yearly smoke inspections, and so on, never ending new regulations will hunt you closer and closer
and it is going to be a matter of 2/5 years...
I'm glad I live in Texas where you can drive gas-guzzling cars, shoot unregistered weapons in your back yard, mix up a savory batch of crystal meth and date your first cousin without anyone looking at you in the least bit strange.
When mechanical devices are all replaced with computer based devices, we will no longer have this freedom. We will become totally dependent on whoever controls the computers.
Complaining about this stuff makes one no different than the carb mechanic complaining about fuel injection ruining the hobby.
Have y’all read the book, “The last Open Road,” by Burt Levy? There is a romance about all those old, quirky, imperfect, highly individualized race cars.
These old cars required drivers to have more broad skills that were more easily visible to spectators. Crowds could hear mis-shifts, seesmoking overheated brakes, and reveled in drivers who could over come their highly imperfect cars.
The lower degree of automation and information on old race cars means more ways to screw up the driving task, which ends up creating more passing opportunities. The more imperfect nature of old technologies means cars that drive very differently on a track, leading to more passing and re-passing... and more exciting racing.