10 O Clock News Article: MPs Motion for Supercar Training

[nopantshans]

Last night (Fri 20) there was an article on Supercars, and how they were getting faster and the number of deaths was increasing. They mentioned our good friend the incompetent Nincompoop Naseem (i refuse to call a peasent yorkshire boxer "prince" - and showed the remnants of his SLR.

Apparantly some MP's have a bee in their bonnet now about mandatory training for supercar owners, and are discussing it in the commons.

Surely then this should apply to superbikes as well, since a ducati 916sp is as accelerative as a Murcielago for less than 10th of the price, and the standard bike test hardly equips someone for that sort of power?

Anyway. i think mandatory training is probably a more positive nag from the nanny state rather than banning, but my concern is brake and they other party spoilers will demand stuff like no supercar license if you get more than xxx points etc.

[turbobloke]

So if you've been driving 'supercars' for over ten years without incident and have had several types of additional 'training' and have held a clean licence for nearly 30 years - full ncd naturally - do you qualify for a special licence that lets you slap any idiot MP of your choice?

[blot]

Brilliant idea, imagine the huge numbers of accidents there are involving 'supercars' in comparison with say.....saxo's, nova & corsa's

The notion behind this 'motion' is clear.

There must be a petrolhead in the ranks of MP's who wants to open that old can of worms.....

What constitutes a supercar?

[lambochick]

How are they going to define a supercar? Something that will do more than 150mph?? Loads of cars fall into that bracket. Something that does 0-60 in less than 4 seconds? Rather pointless when the maximum permitted speed in this country is only 70mph anyway (ahem, cough).

Ho hum, the joys of living in a nanny state.