Standby for a whacking great price rise on all new cars brought to you by Brussels

The new instant fines detailed by the government are just posturing, how often on a motorway journey do you see an actual police car, not the plastic highways chaps who cannot do anything legal, but a real police car....it's rare indeed.

(06-06-2013 06:42pm)Wifes car Wrote:  The new instant fines detailed by the government are just posturing, how often on a motorway journey do you see an actual police car, not the plastic highways chaps who cannot do anything legal, but a real police car....it's rare indeed.

Unmarked

I speak from knowledge, yes there are some unmarked cars but certainly in west Yorkshire the number of motorway police has been massively reduced. All part of the governments cost cutting.

(06-06-2013 10:14pm)Wifes car Wrote:  I speak from knowledge, yes there are some unmarked cars but certainly in west Yorkshire the number of motorway police has been massively reduced. All part of the governments cost cutting.

And in Greater Manchester also

(02-06-2013 12:20pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  There is a very interesting item in the Sunday Times Driving section today regarding new regulations being introduced by those non-elected dim-wits of the EU in Brussels.

Reckoned to add £2000 to the cost of all new cars the paper reckons it will cause a huge drop in new car sales after September 2015 when the new Euro6 regulations come into force. Basically NO current engine can be re-engineered to comply - hence LR's new Hotfire engines. The idea is to reduce NOx emissions ( we have already had this on ships for two years) but after 2014 all new cars will have to have Automatic Emergency Braking to get a 5* Euroncap rating, special aircon coolant ( this came into force in Jan ths year) from 2020 further emissions rules will require CO2 averages to drop from 132g/km to 95g/km. So buy your new car in the next 12 months to avoid a mega price hike. Maybe time to buy up old Land Rovers as an investment as you can bet your bottom Euro that all these "toys" will not enhance the reliability of you new car!

Hi does that mean, range rover /range rover sport and disco engines will become obsolete

The £2k figure is alarmist - bmw will sell you euro 6 for an extra £1k