RE: Tories Buy Flying Spur...

[Calorus]

Tony Bosworth from Friends of the Earth said:

“This car is one of the biggest contributors to climate change of any of the cars on sale in the UK today."

Logically retarded - that honour would have to go to the Vauxhall Vectra, since there hundreds of times as many and they've been on sale for 3 or 4 years longer.

Edited by Calorus on Tuesday 31st July 12:33

[Neil G60]

It may emit 3 gigawatts of carbon and kill orphans but think of the tax it'll raise at the DVLA and the petrol pumps. Sounds like a good earner for the government to me.

[AKA8]

I've seen this car around quite a bit, sometimes getting out of third gear too!

It is a bit pointless I have to admit, they had Jag XJ's before and the mayor has a very nice 1950's/60's Roller.

The thing is though, when you consider the profile of the Borough, and the Diplomats and embassies within it, don't they need something relatively grand?

I vaguely know the leader of Kensington and Chelsea (the only Royla Borough!), I will egg him on into buying a Phantom...

[Beefmeister]

10mpg? Only when flooring it all the time. I had the Conti GT from ecurie25 over new year, did c.350 miles over different types of road (motorway, city, b-road) and i averaged 22mpg. And believe me, i hung around a lot less than a politician would...

Also, what's wrong with politicians supporting the British Automotive Industry for once?

[minimaxs1]

surely the carbon footprint of a marques such as a Rolls or Bently last 60 years has a smaller carbon footprint than 8 Toyota Prius's that would need to be built to last that time period.

[Calorus]

Beefmeister said:

10mpg? Only when flooring it all the time. I had the Conti GT from ecurie25 over new year, did c.350 miles over different types of road (motorway, city, b-road) and i averaged 22mpg. And believe me, i hung around a lot less than a politician would...

Also, what's wrong with politicians supporting the British Automotive Industry for once?

(German)

[keith2007]

Hmmm... now I know where nearly quarter of my wages go in taxes. I paid for a square inch of the bonnet of that car.

[Strawman]

Calorus said:

Beefmeister said:

Also, what's wrong with politicians supporting the British Automotive Industry for once?

(German)

Assembled in the UK, unlike the prius which is shipped at great carbon footprint cost from Japan

[sprinter885]

I'd love to see comment from the "low Carbon footprint" brigade in response to MiniMaxs1 & Strawman's points above.!!
Both good issues that tend to get forgotten. Wonder if VW & BMW have any stats on life expectancy of Continentals/Phantoms & impact of that on "CO2 footprint" (hate the term-should we STAMP it out?)

[AKA8]

It was something like that, might have been 208mph?

The guy who drives this one knows what he has and has floored it a couple of times along my road much to the bemusement of people sitting outside the pub.

I'm not sure how they ever got this one through compliance/expenditure committees but seeing as council tax in the borough is some of the lowest in the country, I'm not too upset.

Anyway, they're pretty good at the recycling of almost everything so that landfill sites don't get filled as they might.

[RichardR]

Balmoral Green said:

All three holders of the GLA's top posts and Assembly Members use public transport and taxis instead of a dedicated car service.

My wife's Terrano uses the same Nissan 2.7 TDI engine as the LTi London taxis and I can vouch for how thirsty and un-green that is!

[sixcylinder]

Balmoral Green said:

clonmult said:

I think they're invariably the mayors motorcade (judging by the badges). Good old Ken and his pimped out black Bentley.

Far be it for me to actually defend the newt lover, but to be fair, he doesn't have a black Bentley, he doesn't have a car at all. All three holders of the GLA's top posts and Assembly Members use public transport and taxis instead of a dedicated car service. And, as was said on the other thread, this is nowt to do with Ken anyway.

Edited by Balmoral Green on Tuesday 31st July 11:31

And just look at Ken's taxi bills, he could have a Bentley and it would cost the poor b***ers in London less Council tax.