Planning on driving your TVR through Paris? Think again!

[alex_gray255]

Is your car 1996 and before? Then you're banned!! Or will be

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/general-cl...

[RichB]

Frankly I wouldn't dream of it!

[alex_gray255]

RichB said:

Frankly I wouldn't dream of it!

Neither would I, but there are lunatics out there that do like to drive
in Paris, the Parisians for example!

[rev-erend]

They are also banning their beloved diesels ..

[macdeb]

Fook, has the world actually gone mad?!
Wouldn't it make more sense to ban cars like the 'Prius' on the basis it takes a lot more carbon to make the glorified bloody milk floats?
Driven through Paris several times on motorbikes and TVR's and going through again on our way to Mugello for the Italian Moto GP [photo op' for other couple who've never been] I'm not a fan of the modern world, it sucks. [though mine is a 200 car]

[davepen]

RichB said:

Frankly I wouldn't dream of it!

depends on your choice of music.

Marianne said:

At the age of 37,
she realised she'd never ride
through Paris in a sports car,
with the warm wind in her hair

France - Tick
Paris - Too late now ...

[F1SERB]

Ive driven the Cerbera through and around Paris loads and i love it the noise is great
And the car always gets lots of attention

[F1SERB]

Ive driven the Cerbera through and around Paris loads and i love it the noise is great
And the car always gets lots of attention

[TV8]

Something similar is coming to central London in 2020 but applies to newer cars than 1996. You will have to pay for the privilege of driving at £12.50 per day!

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/environment/ultra...

[macdeb]

How much more can they possibly squeeze the motorist?

[FER4L]

What's worrying is that it seems that this may not be restricted to major cities. Has anyone heard more? I heard a rumour that they were trialling it, or proposing to trial it, in some Sussex villages? It'd be a shame if one's right to take a classic for a spin is possibly at risk of such a threat

Thanks

Matt

[RichB]

FER4L said:

...proposing to trial it, in some Sussex villages?

I fail to see how this could be enforced?

[FER4L]

RichB said:

FER4L said:

...proposing to trial it, in some Sussex villages?

I fail to see how this could be enforced?

ANPR, I believe?

[RichB]

Yeah, but unlike cities, where you go "to" them with villages you drive "through" them so what are you meant to do when you arrive, unexpectedly, at one of these islands of stupidity run by the local despot?

[FER4L]

RichB said:

Yeah, but unlike cities, where you go "to" them with villages you drive "through" them so what are you meant to do when you arrive, unexpectedly, at one of these islands of stupidity run by the local despot?

No idea! Self-flagellate while hugging lentils? Turn round & burn more fuel going round the exclusion zone?

It's madness, but the sort of madness that could become law if the classic car lobby don't, er, lobby against it with some pretty cogent reasoning, I'd imagine

[RichB]

Totally agree.

[DonkeyApple]

I prefer to walk through Paris, otherwise you cannot experience the exquisite mulch of dog faeces under foot nor the fetid stench of the unwashed.