Cars to evade the business-suited zombies

[V8mate]

I think we've underestimated the scope of the 'what zombie car' threads; but in this case the zombies don't look like this...




They look like this...




Yep. The zombies are those Brussels bureaucrats.

The Eurocrats are killing cars. In the name of saving the planet they are driving car manufacturers to deliver ever more inventive ways of improving vehicle economy and emissions, but at what cost?

Do we really want electronic handbrakes, electric power steering, stop/start systems and other gubbins, all of which will only ever end up doing one thing: being temperamental and failing. Do we need automatic assistance for switching on our headlights or windscreen wipers?

This thread can save the day. We need to identify those cars which, if we fill our garage cupboards with consumable spares, we can run until they ban fossil fuels themselves. I can only see life for people who keep their cars 'up to date' becoming ever more frustrating and costly.

What are they cars to buy now and drive for the next 25 years? Budget up to ten grand.

[Skylinecrazy]

S1 Elise to start us off
Beetle
Mini
Morris Minor and virtually every other classic car..
Catherams and the like.

[V88Dicky]

Jimny.


It's been on sale for 14 years with next to no changes.

It'll probably still be on sale in another 14 years.


You can fix most things on them with a few simple tools, they're tough and reliable and there's very little in the way of technology.

Ideal to avoid the zombies

[englisharcher]

Land Rover Defender

[750turbo]

Sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq4pe0cKQc0

I really would love to tell them what I really really think, but let us be honest. The lot involved are so up their own @rse they have no idea about the real world.

So do we live in a democracy - MEH!

Cheers

Che

And, yes, I have had a few

[BlueMR2]

W124 and W126's.

There is plenty of fuel left in these times right?

[paranoid airbag]

Skylinecrazy said:

Catherams and the like.

definitely the bar-setter.

Fun.
Actually designed to be easy to rebuild.
Already exempt from most of the EU regs.
Not even that bad on fuel, and probably able to run on bioethanol/dead bureaucrat if needed.

[V8mate]

BlueMR2 said:

W124 and W126's.

There is plenty of fuel left in these times right?

The W126 is holding particular appeal.

Need a 4x4 too though, right? (just in the case the 'other' zombies turn up too?)

[Fubar1977]

BlueMR2 said:

W124 and W126's.

There is plenty of fuel left in these times right?

Only need a slim excuse to get one and the apocalypse will do nicely.

[jackh707]

paranoid airbag said:

Not even that bad on fuel, and probably able to run on bioethanol/dead bureaucrat if needed.

Tell that to the weber dcoe 40's

[900T-R]

There's only one sensible answer to that query, and you all know it.

TVR.

It represents everything the Eurocrats are dead set to outlaw.

Buy one now, and by the time they won't allow it on the roads anymore the local coppers will think 'not much chance to make that old fool see the error of his ways, so why bother.'

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.