More LTSA bureaucratic anti-motoring policy....

[peterpsg]

[quote=Kiwi XTR2]Boats are for chartering, not owning.

It's too much money to have "tied up" in something that is used so infrequently.

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Not if you live on it!

And even better if it has a car park, hmm, why have a house in NZ, when you can have several in the UK paying for you to live on this in NZ...

[url]www.ospreysguide.com/Gallery/Sag%20Harbor/yacht_w_a_car.jpg[/url]


...my dream plan anyway

[Esprit]

crikey Peter.... you'd think if they could afoord a boat like that, you could afford more than a Suzuki Vitara to park on it!

[Dan M]

Ffirg 005 said:

The government is proposing restricting the age of second hand vehicles imported into the country to help cut vehicle emissions.

www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3829555a10,00.html

No mention in this article about exemptions for importing interesting stuff, so assuming that's how it's implemented there'll even less options for exotica you can bring into the country. Some petrolheaded lobbying required for this one I think.... on the other side will be all the car importers rubbing their grubby mits together in glee at the idea of a government-sponsored scheme to get the NZ vehicle fleet turning over quicker.

There is the 20 year old rule so classics should still be allowed.

At the moment there isn't much restriction on the emissions of an imported car - it just has to have met an emission standard in another country. The current restriction that effectively bans older cars is the need to show it has been tested to frontal impact which means most pre-1996 cars can't get in. I assume the Esprit is crash tested, unlike TVRs?

One option is to knock some of the older emissions standards off the approved list so it effectively excludes most cars from a certain age. This would be more sensible than a strict year ban which was proposed by the new car dealers as they think they can get more business. Somehow I don't think a buyer looking for a 1996 Corolla is going to walk into a dealer and buy a new one at 5 times the price.

Dan

[crecy]

LTNZ ( as they are now known )not only have their internal wallys but also suffer from loads of governmental fiddling. the current "emission test" was supposed to arrive before the last election and just as us workshops had spent money on test gear the almighty "THEY" decided that it would lose them votes from the cheap end of the market so it was all canned! Now the "Choke the Smoke" test is subjective with loads of If, Buts and Maybes so that if anyone is dumb enough to actually enforce it the LTNZ can deny all knowledge and leave the workshop to hang - same rule as applies to the noise check.

[Kiwi XTR2]

OK Phil If you're going to use that name you better post a pic to explain it.

[kylie]

Welcome crecy!!! Been meaning to pop up and say hi at your workshop

[Esprit]

Welcome in Phil, hope you enjoy your stay... comments like the one you made are good since you're far enough involved within the industry to lend genuine insight

[uberscruff]

crecy said:

LTNZ ( as they are now known )not only have their internal wallys but also suffer from loads of governmental fiddling. the current "emission test" was supposed to arrive before the last election and just as us workshops had spent money on test gear the almighty "THEY" decided that it would lose them votes from the cheap end of the market so it was all canned! Now the "Choke the Smoke" test is subjective with loads of If, Buts and Maybes so that if anyone is dumb enough to actually enforce it the LTNZ can deny all knowledge and leave the workshop to hang - same rule as applies to the noise check.

Actually, dropping the emissions testing was one of the smarter and braver things done by the Ministry of Transport (it was the MoT, not LTNZ, who was doing the work on that one). Because the cars in NZ are such a mixed bag in terms of emissions, going ahead with it would have caused far more problems than it would have solved. The visible smoke test might be crap, but things could have been a lot worse...

[crecy]

the situation is strange though, NZ parades itself as being "clean and green" and yet we have no emission rules. Don't get me wrong, I hate catastrophic perverts as musch as the next engine man/woman but we have far too many little diesels pooring out rubbish constantly and many of our trucks are just as bad.

NOW to answer Grahams comment - Rolls Royce built, during WW II, an experimental V-12, 25 litre, supercharged, directly injected Two stroke called the Crecy ( named after a famous battle ). It was the most facinating engine to be produced during that era of experimentation with the internal combustion engine.