10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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You want to look at the related message board - hilarious!!
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 24th Nov 2005 5:12 pm |
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Very Annoyed
Member Since: 19 Nov 2005
Location: Up there, past the strange people and the sheep.
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I will like a poll asking should Smart cars be banned - Did you know as a percentage of cars on the road in London they are caught more often on speed cameras than any other car. I cann't back this up but I remember reading it in the Evening Standard a year or so ago.
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:15 pm |
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Jon
Member Since: 21 Nov 2005
Location: Horsell, Surrey
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I hope we get the snow that’s predicted. Then we’ll see their opinion change:-) A lone Disco in the land of the Cayenne.
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:15 pm |
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blue meanie
D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
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have a look at the pole now... and theeeeennn......???
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:16 pm |
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Jon
Member Since: 21 Nov 2005
Location: Horsell, Surrey
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Very annoyed wrote:I will like a poll asking should Smart cars be banned - Did you know as a percentage of cars on the road in London they are caught more often on speed cameras than any other car. I cann't back this up but I remember reading it in the Evening Standard a year or so ago.
Rushing home before any of their friends see them. A lone Disco in the land of the Cayenne.
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:20 pm |
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Dan
Member Since: 09 Aug 2005
Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 96
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looks like the final vote is in and it's a close call;
Should 4x4s Be Banned From Cities?
Yes 48%
No 52%
Total votes: 9478
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:40 pm |
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blue meanie
D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
Posts: 6861
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bit of a surge in positive votes recently.... and theeeeennn......???
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:42 pm |
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Dan
Member Since: 09 Aug 2005
Location: Oxfordshire
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blue meanie wrote:bit of a surge in positive votes recently....
strange that  
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:45 pm |
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blue meanie
D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
Posts: 6861
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yes, when I first looked at the vote it was completely the other way, strange that, isn't it? and theeeeennn......???
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:47 pm |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Sitting Down, Facing Front
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Jon wrote:I hope we get the snow that’s predicted. Then we’ll see their opinion change:-)
Interestingly, that came up earlier on Vine's programme when they were talking about the predicted severe winter. The correspondent suggested that it would be a good idea to have a 4x4!!
On the subject of Smart cars, there was a great article in Autocar debunking some of the anti-4x4 myths. There was a table showing CO2 emission per seat for various types of transport. 747s did particularly badly but a D3 was way below many of the 'acceptable' standard cars and the Smart was pathetically high! I think it was in May some time: I was reading it in the dentist's the other day; wish I'd filched it!
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| 24th Nov 2005 5:56 pm |
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croyde
Member Since: 17 Aug 2005
Location: SE England
Posts: 459
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We drive a big car that happens to be a 4X4 because it does the job of about 5 other cars.
MPV
Van
Runabout
Luxury Limo
Off roader
Seems cheap compared to owning all that and it does better MPG than my 3 series BMW.
Have to say that on the school run we have a better chance of spotting the kid about to run into the road. That is untill the whole area gets big 4X4s.
The arguement about people only driving what they truely have a need for seems pretty flawed especially when some of us enjoy our driving. Then why buy any vehicle capable of more than 70 mph, we should all be driving those 3 wheeler invalid carraiges that were around in my yoof.
Last edited by croyde on 24th Nov 2005 7:05 pm. Edited 2 times in total
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| 24th Nov 2005 6:40 pm |
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MVS
Member Since: 18 Jul 2005
Location: People's Republic of Yorkshire
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If you ask nicely us dentists are quite happy to rehome some of our magazines, filching is not necessary.
It saves us having to pay to have our bins emptied or the trip down to the recycling centre in our os so polluting D3's 
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| 24th Nov 2005 6:41 pm |
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KL
Member Since: 16 Jun 2005
Location: Gilling, nr York
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Those messages on the Vine board were hilarious! Shame they were so far off the mark though.
As of 20:45 the results are:
VOTE...
Should 4x4s Be Banned From Cities?
Yes 37%
No 63%
Total votes: 12271
So a huge swing to the 4x4 crowd. Odd? Discovery 3 tdv6 7 seat Buckingham Blue
Had it since new - sold Jun 17 after 12 years and 214,000 miles
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| 24th Nov 2005 9:41 pm |
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