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I like gears so much I'm having an extra one fitted

I imagine its my biking heritage that has driven my love of using gears to keep an engine 'on song'.

I’ve driven well over a thousand miles this week for nothing but pleasure, in a car which is useless for anything else.

I can understand that, the 4 speed on my Kent 4/4 wasn't the best for motorway work and long distance touring.

Even with my 5-speed box Motorways can be a bit tiring, 70 mph equates to just over 3000rpm. but if you chill and drop the cruise to 65mph it's fine.

I think you can rest easy. 1,000 miles at 40mpg means you produced 276Kg of CO2. That's about a half of Boris Johnson used when he took a private jet (A321) from London down to Cornwall. (based on a average of 250Kg/hour for jet transport).

I bet you also did a great deal in your week's holiday to assist the UK economy.

Well this thread puts me in a bad place

I am not going to even try and defend the totally daft waste that these cars represent. The massive complexity and long term running costs make you think twice when your computer controlled suspension fails and makes it float like an 80's Cadilaxitive with no shockers. Then asks for £3k to fix it! Thank heavens for MB warranties.

I think that will be lovely when it is two+ years old, falls off it's PCP (or the way-to-rich owner gets bored of his new toy or sees another one coming the other way) and it is less than half's its price. I will keep my eyes open having had a good line of plummeting AMG's

CL600 (£120k new and I bought it almost three years old for £40k) with it's daft 5.5 biturbo V12.
The current ML63pp which was £110k new and £38k to me with 12k miles two and a half years old.
An E63s estate which was the perfect sleeper as it looked like every Taxi in the area.

They can never match the enjoyment of the Coupe or S2 but for a daily rumble they are great. The hybred thing is a knee jerk due to global emmissions targets, corporate guilt and because they can give it 800+bhp in the german arms race to 1000hp. Oh and Tesla with their Max Plad moments.

I spoke to a friend who likes to do the same with sports cars. Aston V8, Maserati, Jag F-V8 and several others all bought cheap and run for 12 months to have fun. He bought an early AMG GT coupe last year and is keeping it for another year. His comment was "this things is nuts. It makes you laugh every time you get a chance to give it a squirt. The noise is hooligan and it is built out of granite."

As pointed out above the little 660 3 pot Caterham is more valid for the future but I love AMG products for no nonsense ground coverage. Once depreciated.

Are we comparing like with like, how much CO2 per person travelled (to use your illustration) how many people travelled in the Morgan, compared with how many people who travelled in the aircraft, the CO2 per passenger may be much lower in the private jet. That is without dealing with inherent security issues etc which may dictate method of transport and total CO2 involved

the CO2 per passenger may be much lower in the private jet.