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Originally Posted by RoadDad
That depends on where you are. Come hang out with me for a week. I will give you a pen and paper and you can count the cars that are older than 25 years vs younger than 25 years that we see driving around. If neither of us are sure about the age, we'll just plop it into the younger category. We'll then see if it is really just a drop in the bucket or if in some places the junkers out number the newbies  .
We had a local antique car show here last weekend. The evening before the show there was an unofficial "drive" for anyone who wants to participate even if you aren't "showing" your car the next day. 15,000 "old cars" drove down that street (no I didn't count them, but a local newscaster did -- the same guy that counted them last year and the year before that, as a matter of fact.). The street is not closed to regular traffic for the "drive" and wasn't particularly more congested than normal. Perhaps 3% were really what I would call "road worthy." They were all registered (or at least had some VA plate on them). Of those 97% that weren't "road worthy" I'd say I have seen at least 50% of them driving around town regularly.
I know that keeping company costs down can keep down costs for the consumer. In the case of the 2.5mph bumper mandate, however, it was originally driven solely by insurance company "profit" issues not cost cutting, solvency, or protecting the consumer's pocketbook issues. Insurance rates did not drop because of that mandate and they also did not slow in their rate of rise because of it.
We are, OTOH, seeing the opposite with the Elise/Exige in that the lack of a "bumper" and people requiring a full clam replacement for repairable cracks has driven the insurance rates up for these cars... |
There are a lot of old clunkers here too, but again, there is a big difference between taking cars away from people and not letting new cars that don't meet the rules in.
15,000 is a drop in the bucket, there is an interchange here that sees 580,000 cars a day, and that is just one interchange among many
Now you are wasting your breath complaining about govt rules, it's not going to change and there is nothing you can do about it. That is the way it is, so you can either buy the car and take your chances or buy something else ( I hear there is a really nice 67 Lotus Elan for sale here in SoCal, I know the owner
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