tell me about it. my clapped out old N reg mondeo cost me £190 for the year to tax end of last month!
if i got a bmw 330i the tax is £175 IIRC and a 316d is £35!
I dont mind at all, its been like that on our roads for a long time!
I wish nothing but misfortune on those pillocks, TBH.
Evidently, going by the amount of crashed caravans I see on my travels, a 'higher power' thinks they're twits too.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Old cars !!
I've got a 1995 XJ6 Jaguar 4.0Stuck with it now until I'm dead. Engine size makes it unsellable, and even if I took the £2k trade in, I can't afford another car.
I have cut my costs by going with Aviva (Norwich) for insurance, as they do a 'mileage' deal, and as my car has only been off the drive 4 times in the last 5 months it cut my insurance premium by 45%. I declared 5,000 milesor under, but I've gone so far under that I may go for a 3,000 mile option.
New drivers
I will now appear to be an 'old fart' but I was driving what used to probably be the the fastest road car in the UK when I was 19, a Mk 2 manual gear change 3.8 Jaguar. The difference in my opinion, was that it was built to withstand a crash (if you had one)and most of the other normal cars couldn't get to 85 m.p.h. Todays new drivers get cars that are capable of well over 100 m.p.h. and they all want to drive like a Formula 1 champion, and drive too fast (just like I did at at that age) but I was only racing against a clock from A to B, not another new driver in his fast car. I took my cars over east Londons docklands and threw them all over the place to get the 'feel' of them.Braking, handling, steering, skids,what it did in each gear, everything I could think of. Some of my mates thought I was mad, but here I am, a hell of a lot of years later and have never had an accident.
And I still drive fast when conditions allow it. I did a timed run from Yalding in Kent to East Ham Town Hall in my old Jag when I was young. No car ever got anywhere near my time, and that old car didn't have power steering or ABS sytems. And these days, due to the volume of traffic on the roads, that time can never be beaten, unless the driver wants a stack of tickets from speed cameras.
We had it easy back in those days. No speed cameras, police 'Panda' cars were Morris 1000s or Austin 1100s, 0-60 in 20 minutes, with a top speed of about 75. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Happy days. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Caravan owners are tight *******s who won't pay for bed and breakfast. And in this part of the country with no motorway, they cause chaos on Bank Holiday weekends. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
You don't drive for sainsbury's or tesco do you, because they appear to be the only large lorries that do 40 on single carraigeway roads. Why is this?
Well, I do like to make a few controversial comments (of course). It would be no fun to have everyone agree with me!
But yes - caravanning is a pure nuisance. I get the RDS traffic updates on the radio quite a bit and if it isn't an overturned lorry due to the wind, it's an overturned caravan occupying the middle1 lane somewhere.
I feel sorry for the neighbours of people who own caravans too, because they are an absolute eye-sore to behold every morning when you leave for work or open your curtains. Absolutely ruins the look of any neighbourhood.
I bet if we went on a caravanning forum and declared that they ought to all pay a nuisance tax, we'd get a similar response to how I feel about 4x4's data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 I should really be specific and say 'Chelsea Tractors' though ... then I think we would all be reading from the same page.
They're not the only ones, I don't drive for either of those and I do 40mph on single carriageways. If you follow others that are going faster they are breaking the law.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
I suspect it's a frequency effect.
For example, people comment when I am at my parents home that being under a flight path is noisy, but I genuinely don't notice the aircraft any more.
Perhaps with caravans being the norm, you inadvertantly block them out?
Well my perception is that a lot of Hgv's are breaking the law. Most seem to go about 50 mph which is at least a reasonable speed if you're stuck behind one. Don't you think the current limit of 40mph is ridiculous.
A lot of speed limits are outdated nonsense.