Depreciation of the Granturismo

allandwf

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The government, whatever one, could not just do away with petrol cars, as at least 80% of the price of a gallon you see at the pumps is made up of various taxes. What would they substitute that with? An amperage or voltage charge? ;)
 

D Walker

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The government, whatever one, could not just do away with petrol cars, as at least 80% of the price of a gallon you see at the pumps is made up of various taxes. What would they substitute that with? An amperage or voltage charge? ;)
Oxygen, I see breathing tax on the horizon.....lol...
 

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The government, whatever one, could not just do away with petrol cars, as at least 80% of the price of a gallon you see at the pumps is made up of various taxes. What would they substitute that with? An amperage or voltage charge? ;)

Probably, yes

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Lavazza

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The thing is the next generation will have no interest in our sort of cars. In a decade solid state batteries will allow a £60-75k two seater to do 0-60 in 2.5s, have a range of 400 miles and hardly need servicing - our stuff will be viewed as archaic.
I don't agree with that.
The old kit that sounds good, looks great and feels real and characterful will (or should) be revered.
 

CatmanV2

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The government, whatever one, could not just do away with petrol cars, as at least 80% of the price of a gallon you see at the pumps is made up of various taxes. What would they substitute that with? An amperage or voltage charge? ;)

And there it is. The government only has our money. It's hilarious watching people complain about the price of fuel without talking to the government.

Whatever happens they need to maintain revenues somehow. Milage. Voltage. Fuel duty. TV Licence....

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bigbob

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I don't agree with that.
The old kit that sounds good, looks great and feels real and characterful will (or should) be revered.
It might be but only by a small number of people just like now where only a few old blokes take any interest in 'ancient' cars. Good thread revival BTW.
 

Lavazza

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It might be but only by a small number of people just like now where only a few old blokes take any interest in 'ancient' cars. Good thread revival BTW.
On the plus side, the demographic is likely to come out of present circumstances pretty well (I'm generalising).
 

bigbob

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Well that would be 'Will there be any other type?', surely? ;)

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That's true! Mind lithium-ion batteries are wet. Interestingly Tesla is sticking with 'improved' lithium ion batteries and some others have pushed back solid state forecasts so we could be stuck with old tech for a while.

I do wonder if Dyson has been really clever with dropping his car to work more on solid state batteries themselves - we could do with a British win on something.