[Mgs] UK Government not planning to ban old cars

[Hans Duinhoven]

These might be plans, but.....
Several German cities already have banned cars of a certain age or older.
Some of these might lift the ban for real classics - please don not start a 
flame over this subject over what the definition of a classic is.
Also our capital Amsterdam have some nasty plans banning older cars, because 
these "pollute".
There already is a very strong opposition by classic car owners - many of 
these people come from the artistic circuit - there are loads of old 
Volvo's, Citrokn's, etc. around there, so the lobby against this is growing.

Let the classic force be with us!

Cheers,

Hans
71 BGT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Gosling" <rbgosling at googlemail.com>
To: "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>; <spitfires at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:01 PM
Subject: [Mgs] UK Government not planning to ban old cars


> Someone somewhere obviously got concerned that UK or European legislation
> was on the verge of banning classic cars, and started a petition on the
> Prime Minister's website to stop this happening.  Here's the government
> response:
>
> http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page15326.asp
>
> Basically they say that last year they investigated the idea of creating
> incentives for scrapping cars that don't comply with more recent emissions
> legislation, and decided it wasn't a good idea, for various reasons
> including the environmental cost of scrapping loads of cars and building
> loads more to replace them with.  So there are no plans to ban anything.
>
> They don't deny that Edinburgh City Council may be going to ban old cars
> from the city centre, but say that is entirely Edinburgh Council's 
> business
> and nothing to do with the government.
>
> We can all rest easy tonight thanks to our governments re-assuring words
> (unless we plan to drive into Edinburgh).  In fact I'm tempted to drive to
> Edinburgh in Sammy this weekend, just to show my disapproval!
>
> Richard & Sammy ('73 Black Tulip BGT, RIP Daffy the '78 Inca Yellow
> Spitfire)