Now ! not mant people know this.

[Eric Tilley]

Goverment statistics for the UK.

There were nearly 33 million registered vehicles on the road in 2005. In 1996 there were around 26 million .

The total number of kilometres travelled by vehicles has increased from 440 billion km in 1996 to 500 billion km in 2006 .

If left unchecked congestion is predicted to cost the economy around an extra £24 billion by 2025 .

A higher proportion of households now have two or more cars (29%) than no car (26%) .

In 2005/06 motorists experienced a total delay of 31.3 million hours in the worst 10% of journeys. For an individual, that is 3.9 minutes' delay over 10 miles.

Nearly one in five cars on urban roads at 8.50am in the morning during term time is on the school run .

I make that 15,000 miles per car which I find a bit strange when you take the number of cars in dealer forecourts, used weekends for fun, shopping onlys and classics on nominal miles. Averaging out mine its 6ooo each so who is putting the marathons ?

 

[angus falconer]

It's not me - this year I'll do 5000-ish

And not my wife - she does less that 2000 miles a year

 

[MIW615]

No doubt some-one in goverment office was paid £££££££££'s to come up with this "tosh"

My mileage is 8000 miles and my wife's 1500 miles per year

 

[jibcl500]

More rubbish generated to tax the motorist even more so. 7 cars in our family and only two of us can drive, me and the wife, Rolly the dog likes to drive sometimes but thats only when I get tired behind the wheel and its late.

simple solution, ban the school run and fine anyone doing it.
ban caravans they can only move between 12 midnight and 5am any other time the penalty is they cut off your tow bar.
tougher MOT's
kids cant drive until 21
destroy anything with corsa on th back of it
destroy anything a 14 inch diameter exhaust tailpipe
destroy anything with neons
destroy anything with big stereo (factory fit exempt)
destroy anything french
execute anyone wearing burberry
crash and burn the fake Mercedes (lexus)

jib
(aka adolf)

 

[MIW615]

More rubbish generated to tax the motorist even more so. 7 cars in our family and only two of us can drive, me and the wife, Rolly the dog likes to drive sometimes but thats only when I get tired behind the wheel and its late.

simple solution, ban the school run and fine anyone doing it.
ban caravans they can only move between 12 midnight and 5am any other time the penalty is they cut off your tow bar.
tougher MOT's
kids cant drive until 21
destroy anything with corsa on th back of it
destroy anything a 14 inch diameter exhaust tailpipe
destroy anything with neons
destroy anything with big stereo (factory fit exempt)
destroy anything french
execute anyone wearing burberry
crash and burn the fake Mercedes (lexus)

jib
(aka adolf)

:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

 

[C220GJS]

Not had your coffee this morning jib ?.

 

[jibcl500]

too many coffees in fact...........................


jib

 

[Mr Teddy Bear]

You allow that great hairy dog into your Porsch jib ?

 

[Eric Tilley]

destroy anything with corsa on the back of it

It appears Vauxhall have already addressed this issue . If you leave them in the driveway in the rain they spontaneously combust.
According to" The Telegraph" an earlier recall on the problem has not fixed it, it is due to water getting into the ABS system

 

[MIW615]

It appears Vauxhall have already addressed this issue . If you leave them in the driveway in the rain they spontaneously combust.
According to" The Telegraph" an earlier recall on the problem has not fixed it, it is due to water getting into the ABS system

Just read the article, apparantly affects cars produced between 2003 and 2005 and 200,000 cars are going to be re-called again.

If I recall correctly wasn't this on BBC's Watchdog program a few moths back?