The Future

[anonymous-user]

Driving will become very boring in the next decade. Here’s the start of it

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volvo-...

[CarreraLightweightRacing]

I'd love to hear how they compiled their statics on death rate at 112mph as apposed to say 155mph. Utterly daft, not that it has any effect at all for UK motorist driving on the road.

[red_slr]

Shocked its taken them that long TBH.

The only reason most of the Germans are still at 155 is due to public attitudes towards speed, in that the majority of Germans love their national speed limit and it would be political suicide to play with that!

[anonymous-user]

Wont be long before the EU makes it mandatory! Good reason to get out of the EU !

Edited by cc3 on Monday 4th March 13:19

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Best you stick to the facts

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/site...

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Best you stick to the facts

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/site...

[anonymous-user]

Try reading the facts instead of throwing insults around.

[anonymous-user]

wow you are now a spokesperson for the German Government !

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...

[MDL111]

agree with cmoose, there is no way Germany will introduce a blanket speed limit or agree to limiters below the 155mph limit, which some manufacturers currently apply (mainly to then charge additional fees to remove / increase the limiter), during at the very least the next say 10 years. It gets brought up every few years and then disregarded pretty quickly again.

[red_slr]

Yep no way. Speak to 10 Germans and the majority will be rather unpleased about any reduction in nsl A road speeds.

[anonymous-user]

MDL111 said:

agree with cmoose, there is no way Germany will introduce a blanket speed limit or agree to limiters below the 155mph limit, which some manufacturers currently apply (mainly to then charge additional fees to remove / increase the limiter), during at the very least the next say 10 years. It gets brought up every few years and then disregarded pretty quickly again.

Why not many in Germany would now see this as a sensible thing to do to help with environmental targets etc. Certainly my family who live in Dresden now want to see change as we move towards electric etc. A few years ago they would have said never but now more and more people are putting the environment first in their thinking

[CarreraLightweightRacing]

cc3 said:

Why not many in Germany would now see this as a sensible thing to do to help with environmental targets etc. Certainly my family who live in Dresden now want to see change as we move towards electric etc. A few years ago they would have said never but now more and more people are putting the environment first in their thinking

A family in Dresden do not speak for the 81M people of Germany of which I am one. Any changes to the current law will be apposed especially so if based on fabricated ideas such as "environment". Once river pollution, plastics in the sea, heavy metal mining, deforestation... have been addressed then considerations can be given to the misnomer of the rather pathetic green house gas that is C02.

[anonymous-user]

CarreraLightweightRacing said:

A family in Dresden do not speak for the 81M people of Germany of which I am one. Any changes to the current law will be apposed especially so if based on fabricated ideas such as "environment". Once river pollution, plastics in the sea, heavy metal mining, deforestation... have been addressed then considerations can be given to the misnomer of the rather pathetic green house gas that is C02.

I have heard Donald Trump say that so it must be right everything else would be fake news of course

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Yes and those tariffs on German cars as they are a risk to national security

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Who knows what will happen in the future certainly experts don’t ! EU economics hardly look a success story ! Life will go on the sun will still rise, change can be good. Both sides of the debate are probably completely overblown in their views

[anonymous-user]

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Relax you need to chill. No deal BREXIT could be great, stop buying new Porsche, Mercs and BMW’s no hardship. Kia doing a nice electric car with 250 mile range

Oh I forgot those experts who were £100bn out with their project fear with the U.K. economy going to crash as soon as all those stupid 17 m people voted for BREXIT. I was relaxed either way on stay or leave may create new business opportunities Listening to you i say bring it on !

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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As to money went big into cash months ago to take advantage of the carnage post29 March. The world is about to end you know, we will all soon be so poor we will be growing our own veg, keeping a few goats and making our own home brew. Life will be good people won’t be moaning about not getting their allocation of a Porsche GT car so that they can flip it and make a few quid. House prices down 30% will help first time buyers Will be a good leveller. Living without expensive cars like most of the population is probably a good thing. Socialist society under Comrade Corbyn modelled on Venezuela

Edited by jeremyc on Tuesday 5th March 10:08

[Jim1556]

CarreraLightweightRacing said:

A family in Dresden do not speak for the 81M people of Germany of which I am one. Any changes to the current law will be apposed especially so if based on fabricated ideas such as "environment". Once river pollution, plastics in the sea, heavy metal mining, deforestation... have been addressed then considerations can be given to the misnomer of the rather pathetic green house gas that is C02.

Bingo!

CO2 is NOT a pollutant, plants love it!

[Deansfield]

The future is speeding up so quickly, all the more reason for buying that car now and enjoying it whilst we can!!
Spend more time driving it getting it dirty returning and washing it ready for the next outing ,
if you have the keys to a Porsche in your drawer your already very fortunate , don’t deprive yourself, get them in the ignition and listen to that sound Porsche create with air and PETROL 👌

[MDL111]

cc3 said:

MDL111 said:

agree with cmoose, there is no way Germany will introduce a blanket speed limit or agree to limiters below the 155mph limit, which some manufacturers currently apply (mainly to then charge additional fees to remove / increase the limiter), during at the very least the next say 10 years. It gets brought up every few years and then disregarded pretty quickly again.

Why not many in Germany would now see this as a sensible thing to do to help with environmental targets etc. Certainly my family who live in Dresden now want to see change as we move towards electric etc. A few years ago they would have said never but now more and more people are putting the environment first in their thinking

I think you could address this much better by hiking taxes on petrol for private vehicles to a level where people think twice about using their car for every journey. Tax a litre of petrol to 4 Euros and I bet you will see a substantial reduction in people driving (or in any case driving non-electric-cars) and therefore emissions - which would have the added benefit that there will be less congestion, so you can drive faster :-)