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Old Mar 31st, 2011, 06:50   #1
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Think again if you want to keep your Volvo beyond 2050:

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-new...331-1ch3l.html
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Old Mar 31st, 2011, 08:34   #2
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Think again if you want to keep your Volvo beyond 2050:

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-new...331-1ch3l.html

I don't suppose i will still have my current car in 39 years time, even if I am still around! Anyway, this is politics.
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Better get my Bicycle out and polish it up, if I'm still alive that is.
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we will fight them on the beaches!!!

"UK rejects EU call for city centre ban on petrol cars": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12879566
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we will fight them on the beaches!!!

"UK rejects EU call for city centre ban on petrol cars": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12879566
Good call. However, you will have to go back to driving the British made clunkers.
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Old Mar 31st, 2011, 23:10   #6
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Good call. However, you will have to go back to driving the British made clunkers.
if my grand plan comes to fruition, it'll be a british clunker from this website! http://www.bentleymotors.com/
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Gonna do two lucky dips this Saturday
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I'd actually like to see more cars in city centres. That'll keep them away from roads in the countryside where I live....
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Nice wheels. If you take out all the German bits you will have a few sheets of elegant British made tin.
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Nice wheels. If you take out all the German bits you will have a few sheets of elegant British made tin.
as a matter of interest, is there any car made anywhere anywhere in the world which uses only components and resources local to that country, all the way down to the nuts and bolts?
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