A bike is just a tool, amirite?
Heretic - even on a rarely cycling cycle forum...
Buy whatever car you like, love, enjoy and can afford.
Did you hear about the guy who *********** Austin Princess?
I’m with Kelvin. Drive what you want to drive and what you can afford (same for bikes). No need to look down or be just downright rude “shitbox drivers”.
i like driving our 16yr old Honda which might be considered as crap car by some.
No need to look down or be just downright rude “shitbox drivers"
Jesus, it was a tongue in cheek comment, because the older/base spec car drivers seem to have some problem with modern safety systems
It's only the older/base spec car drivers that seem to have a problem with what anyone else drives tbh - if they deem it to be a 'luxury motor'
I've had more than my fair share of shitboxes and loved them all (well not all) but I couldn't give a toss what anyone drives, be it a £500 banger or a million quid supercar
Not sure why you went to the effort of quoting me, when nowhere in my post did I mention the use of a phone?
It seems like the shitbox drivers are losing their minds in this thread and just coming out with random words now….
Yeah I didn't get the point quite correct. I meant cars have so many safety systems but its almost cancelled out with the amount of people using phones when driving.
Anyway.
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It is funny. Outraged at 'poverty spec' 'shitboxes', outraged at Little Lord Fauntleroy luxo barges, outraged at spending more than whatever random minimum amount to get whatever is considered a 'car', outraged at spending YOUR money on things YOU want that differ from things other other people might want, outraged that you're not living in social housing, wearing a hair shirt and earning minimum wage, outraged that your Dad was/wasn't a toolmaker...
Just lots of outrage.
People. Tsssk. 🙂
.... and yet, disregarding all the psychological hangups to do with appearances - if we want the majority of drivers to adopt the next generation of cleaner cars as quickly as possible then somehow they're going to have to be made more affordable.
somehow they’re going to have to be made more affordable.
I'm not sure it matters if everything beyond 2030 has to be electric. Assuming there's only one choice people will have to take it or leave it. Obviously there'll be a long tail of ICE ownership but that'll sort itself once fuel/spares/expertise becomes scarce(r).
The current squabble about meeting %target electric sales leading up to compulsion feeds into the affordability discussion as well. IIRC, for each vehicle sold outside of the target, the manufacturer is 'fined' £15k. Who do we think will pay the £15k indirectly? That's another inflationary jump in new prices right there.
Plenty of people will be happy about it though as they don’t like others having nice things. Either because they can’t afford them, or because they don’t want others having what they can afford.
Sadly this is so very true.
