Random HH-R Prejudices, please

[The Moog]

Please please please don't buy one that has the 1.6 sohc mills spec. It drinks fuel and continental drift is quicker.

 

Push the go pedal and it is like a fight in the big brother house, fuck loads of noise no action (even when they have access to knives).

[Junkman]

No it isn't!

 

You are right, the Rover is actually over 12 cm wider than a 560.

 

Rover 620 Si 4d Auto        1950 mm

Mercedes 560 SEC           1829 mm

[Junkman]

Please please please don't buy one that has the 1.6 sohc mills spec. It drinks fuel and continental drift is quicker.

 

Push the go pedal and it is like a fight in the big brother house, fuck loads of noise no action (even when they have access to knives).

 

It's still better than walking, no?

Two litres are preferred, shirley, but very hard to find, so before I relegate to the line 11 bus, I'd settle for a sixteen-hundred.

[Asimo]

Google says 172cm (190.5cm across mirrors)

[The Moog]

Yes just about better than walking.

 

Although to be fair we do 0-70 onto a dual carriageway everytime we leave our house which highlights the issue.

 

Positive points were it is cheap, you can get bits for them at up to 30mph they are okish, likely to have been looked after.

[Grundig]

Yes just about better than walking.

 

Although to be fair we do 0-70 onto a dual carriageway everytime we leave our house which highlights the issue.

 

Positive points were it is cheap, you can get bits for them at up to 30mph they are okish, likely to have been looked after.

 

Are bits for them unobtainable at higher speeds ?

[Junkman]

Google says 172cm (190.5cm across mirrors)

 

 

PHAKT is, the 600 is --< W - I - D - E >--  and thus not Junkwoman compliant.

Give me a 560 any day.

[dollywobbler]

Problem with the SOHC Honda lump is that it's bloody short on power, even in manual form. It also seems prone to wear and a whole host of other problems. RELIABULL HONDA ENJIN my arse. Mine would puff out impressive clouds of blue smoke occasionally. At 86,000 miles. Mind you, the Sirion did that as well - but that stopped doing it after an oil change.

[Lacquer Peel]

- It's in the higher taxation class because of 40 fucking cubic centimetres. WTF were they thinking???

 

Were they supposed to predict the VED class changes based on cubic centimetres?

[purplebargeken]

Soz. I only haz 75, V6 auto with moo. My 45 CVT was a lovely thing. Bloody comfy. 

[inconsistant]

I've carefully weighed up what you have said you want from a car and am going to suggest that you buy a Guernsey spec Rover metro/100 cabriolet.

Job done, end of thread.

[Junkman]

Were they supposed to predict the VED class changes based on cubic centimetres?

 

Were those changes introduced post Rover 400?

[Lacquer Peel]

Aye, I think the cc-based tax classes were introduced with the co2-based tax classes in 2001.

[r.welfare]

No, the < and > 1549cc tax rates predate 1.3.01 registrations where it changed to CO2.

[Lacquer Peel]

When was it introduced? I don't think it was long before 2001.

[Partridge]

I think it was in 2001?

[r.welfare]

I'm thinking early 90s.

[Lacquer Peel]

March 1999

– the Chancellor announces that the fuel tax escalator would remain

at 6 per cent. He also announces the re

duction of VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) to

£100 on cars with engines up to 1,100cc, and the intention to

introduce graduated

VED in autumn 2000

 

March 2001

– in his Budget the

Chancellor delivers the

2p per litre reduction on

ULSP fuel tax (3p per litre on diesel) and

announces extending the reduced rate of

VED to existing cars up to 1,549cc from July 2001

http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/tax-and-investment-march08.pdf

[Partridge]

Sorted, then.