RSD wrote:
Howya Jon
O Neall........... now there is a fine name.
Yeah, I think it's Irish or something! :wink:
My wife and I have some friends from Dublin (who live here in Phoenix, Arizona now) and when their relatives come to visit and I tell them my T/A has a 6.6L engine they freak!!! From what I understand you are taxed according to the size of the engine... on and island were anything over 2.0L is considered big (correct me if I'm wrong) that good old 400 between the frame rails of my T/A seemed positively obese to them!!!! :lol:
HAHA.. you are absolutely right Jon...
Cars here are taxed according to engine size..
the average family size car here has a 1.6 engine fitted..
people generally think hard before buying anything over that size
running costs are just too high..
short example
Tax on a 1.6 570 euro
cost of insurance for let's say a 30 year old with a clean licence 1,200/1,500 euro
petrol (GAS)at an average cost of 1.10 euro a litre..
so most people tend to try and keep the car engine size as small as possible..
unless of course you are young and single.....
then it gets and little nuts by our standards
most guys average age 25 to 30 and single prefer to drive Jap Cars
Nissan Skyliner's&Toyota supra's and anything else that Comes 2.5/3.0 with turbos...
granted they are quick cars but they lack character. :wink:
usually when I roll up beside one of them at a set of lights in my T/A
they get very shy............ fear of the unknown..
most would have never seen a T/A before....
and the sound of the V8 seems to intimidate them hahaha...
I love that.