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Can we talk about vehicles?
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 24 Nov 2010, 01:56 ---I don't think I'm ever going to be able to afford driving lessons, let alone a car.
At this point I'm not sure if there's much point. Cars are shite for the environment anyway.
--- End quote ---
To be fair, that's like complaining that the carpet will be ruined because the sink is leaking when there is a monsoon going and you have no roof. Get a used small car (you guys have lots of clean diesels over there, don't you?) and you aren't going to be doing anything appreciable to the environment. Can't wait until the infrastructure for hydrogen cars gets to the point where they are practical, though. It will probably take another big fuel crisis or two. Then the supply of fossil fuel can go farther, when it is only used by old people that have no intention of selling their car when it still works just as well as when they bought it in 1980 and by people that drive for fun.
pwhodges:
I have lived with 27 cars so far; you can see them all in this album (these are pictures from Google, not my actual cars, but are mostly the right model and colour).
Here are the most special in various ways:
Standard Big Nine - the car I fell out of as an infant when a door came open on a corner - probably my very first reliable memory is lying on a rubber sheet in hospital while my scalp was stitched; I also remember the honeycomb radiator and the temperature gauge on top:
Hillman Husky - the car I learnt to drive in; it had four gears: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Emergency Low:
Bedford Beagle - the car I took my girlfriend out in:
Morris Traveller - my own first car:
Austin 1800 - the car I would most like to have again:
Citroen BX - the car I had for longest (first as a company car, and then my wife bought it off the company - it did about 230,000 miles):
Peugeot 306 - probably the prettiest car I had, and fabulous to drive on country roads:
KharBevNor:
What good buying a car I can't drive, have nowhere to park, can't insure etc.?
Oh hey what about vehicles we actually use.
Optare Tempo Bus
British Rail Class 444 Siemens Desiro Electric Modular Train
MV Wight Light/MV Wight Sky/MV Wight Sun
Red Jet 4
British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88
pwhodges:
OK. Bike I go to work on (though I walk a lot these days):
As you see, flooding doesn't stop me.
Lunchbox:
Look, it's even the route number you can take to get to my place. That one goes the long way round though.
Trains! I don't get trains very often. Maybe once a week. They either look like this or this:
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