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01-13-2023, 02:48 AM | #43 | |
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The displacement tax in Europe is mostly a myth. Most countries abandonned them decades ago, and the few ones left make up for less than 5% of the market. It mostly comes down to practicality (we love hatches), and gas cost (awfully close to $8/gal right now). Plus, big engines get terrible mileage in city driving, which is most of what we do. Oh and we have huuuuge gaz guzzler taxes. Buying a Mustang? Yeah that'll be 30 grand please. On top of 20% tax. |
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When I was stationed in Germany one of the guys had his '76 Trans Am brought over. We drove that thing all over Germany (well West Germany at that point) and France. It was fine out on the highways but some of the older towns were an adventure to get through. There are valid reasons most European cars are on the smaller side!
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Yep. We took a bus tour in Scotland in one of those 16 passenger busses that's more like a giant van.
Manual transmission - and not because it was old, it was a new bus they just still make nearly everything with a manual over there. Absolutely flying up/down the twisty backroads in the highlands in that small bus until we caught up to one of those huge luxury tour buses creeping along because it couldn't make the tight turns without blocking both lanes. Outside of the major highways the roads are just smaller in about every way you can think of. Giant muscle cars are popular here because there's enough room just about anywhere to get clear road in front of the nose and open it up. Hot hatches are popular there because there's almost never such an opportunity, so you need to be able to make better use of tighter spaces. And when you're not hooning it, you still have to be able to park it somewhere. |
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Fuel module tank. You can see the "Mo G" chalked onto the tailgate which means I had "motor gas" in it at that point. The whole tank could be just lifted off and swapped for diesel, aviation fuel or jet fuel. This allowed one vehicle to do multi roles without flushing the tank out each time.
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So just the GR line dropped, not the platform? I hear all sorts of reasons why not, and honestly hope that's true, new high dollar infrastructure. Was just sharing. We'll see, hoping to be wrong and thought the same thing, why after a new model rollout, that's a big loss.
But I'm from semiconductors and solar. I've seen working factories shut down before. Some right before they were slated to open. A couple times 100s of millions invested were just shut down and sold off. The solar factory I worked in that used to be Komatsu. Now even solar is gone and it's a giant server farm. |
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