Originally Posted by Heinz
I agree with all the suggestions, including those of cerealsurfer and Mkiss. Only...no matter what you favour, we are dependent on the politicians (as democratic representatives of the people) who make the rules of the game, allow things and forbid them. For this reason, I cannot make any assessment of the future value of petrol cars. If they are only allowed to stand in the hotel entrance area as decoration, their value will be reduced to less than a tenth.


Might be different in Germany but here in the UK I have every confidence that you wont be stopped from using an old ICE car, but just from buying a new one.The large majority of car users wont be happy struggling to maintain an old ICE banger and for that reason alone, the UK car fleet will change over to electric leaving behind only those old ICE cars that can be kept going and which are worth the effort.Their effect on the environment will be trivial - how many classic cars even now do more than maybe 1000 miles a year?

The only time I can recall a UK government stepping into take away from people the right to own or use something they have long posessed was the over reaction to guns and their effective confiscation. It simply isnt the way we do things here.

I disagree with cerealsurfer. What he lists are pretty ordinary family bangers with no great merit and with huge production volumes. In my experience, classics are small volume and also bbvehicles that wre a bit special in their pomp. Sure there are exceptions - the E type was reasonably high volume but it was recognised in its day as special.