Calls for a tax on old cars 10+

Col,

Now what would make you even consider that of such a fine upstanding section of our community ?

Regards

Maybe they could call for a tax on large homes in wealthy areas that use proportionately more energy and water if they are so interested in the environment

Most of the pollution a car will create during its life is when its made
Keeping old cars reduces pollution in a global sense

If we had only 11 million people in Australia we'd only have half the vehicle pollution to deal with. : )


Cheers Wilko

These moves are purely designed to line the pockets of MTA members. They have been trying it for years.

Shame on them - thats a tax on the poorest people.

"The MTA's lobbying document for the coming state election also recommends comprehensive vehicle inspections with pollution and safety testing every time a vehicle changes hands."

Neither of those moves will make a scrap of difference to the road toll and serious injury.

G/Day Col. ... Everything will be out of China in the not to distant future, So they wont last "Ten" Years, ......The problem will disappear!....LOL.



Cheers Axle.

In the name of safety? I was driving my 20 year old Suzuki 4WD (with cross ply tyres and drum brakes all 'round) without injury (to me or anyone else) while my contemporaries were killing themselves (and their mates) in current model airbag & ABS equipped family cars. IMHO there's a bigger issue than the age of the car.

In NZ they improved things a lot by importing S/H cars from Japan.

Dont see the old cars around like you used to.

Now they cant import anything built before 1994 with crash test qualifications.

Lots better specs than most cars here or there.

In Japan they have a big inspection at 60,000k so cars are frequently traded then rather than get them checked..

Only trouble some look like they never had an oil change in their life.

Can also import write offs and use the parts like a Honda Civic R type and swap all the bits into a standard one.

Friend of mine got a late model Skyline in 2000 and imported it for less than half the price for one here

Another mate in 1999 imported a 1994 Honda Accord Coupe with all the fruit The Narrow headlight shark like front model and put it on the road for $4850 NZ when I came over in 2002 saw one for sale in Brisvegas for $15,000 and it was a plain one.

I wonder at what point did governments, police, car makers, so called do gooders (the name Ralph Nader comes to mind) and the long suffering general public give up on the concept of training drivers to handle the ever increasing performance of the modern automobile and decide that we have to make crash survivability the sole criteria regardless of the fact that the human body was never designed to be decellerated from 100 kph to zero in 3/10 of a nanosecond. Call me cynical but I guess putting the onus on the driver to accept responsibility was just too hard.

Cheers ob