Will you be able to afford to run the vr4 in 10 years time.

[Paul C]

Looking at the hike in petrol prices over the last 5 years i have decided that in 10 years time that it will cost too much to run a hi-performance vehicle.( i'll be more astounded if i still have the vr4 in 10 years but this is hyperthetical). The worlds oil problems will be even worse. I say make the most of the vr4 now and get ready for buying a crappy smart car or something even worse.

[richy rich]

I agree i doubt ill be able to run mine but my plan is it will be a track car then./rally

[Paul C]

a solution would be to leave the uk to country of cheap petrol so that means anywhere.Or keep kidding ourselves that Lpg is the way forward.

Where is the fun in tryinging to modify an electric motor as thats where we are heading. Even Hydrogen power you will need some balls to mess with that.The best solution is to max the credit card at rhdjapan and live for now and not tomorrow as were all going to end up as classic car restores.

[bernmc]

As I will be rich beyond my wildest dreams, VR4 fuel will be pocket money for me in ten years time. I will be wiping my bum with £50 notes wot wot wot.

[Robotnik123]

Probably will have gotten rid of the VR-4 in 10 years, but I expect I will have some sort of performance automobile. Perhaps a V8 Holden Commodore. I am sure GM will continue to make those for the forseeable future. Petrol might be more expensive, but I hope to be earning a lot more than I am now also -this is taking into account promotions at work and that sort of thing.

[Paul C]

From the money you have saved on petrol by swapping to the skyline

[TAR]

Family friendly as ever Bern!!

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[Kieran]

Family friendly as ever Bern!!

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Amended.:scholar:

[Beastlee]

Amended.:scholar:

Aww now we'll never know!


I will keep my VR4 as long as I'm over here and it runs. I've already mentioned that as soon as I have to go back to full price fuel I wouldn't be able to run the car, it was close at my last position. The only way would be to double my salary which would probably happen if I started working in the real industry instead of being a Civil Servant!

[I-S]

Nope...

This was the line of reasoning that persuaded my dad (a total dieselophobe) to get the Landcruiser D4D instead of the 4.0. 30mpg vs 20mpg in 10 years time, when he's retired....

[pitslayer]

a solution would be to leave the uk to country of cheap petrol so that means anywhere.Or keep kidding ourselves that Lpg is the way forward.

Where is the fun in tryinging to modify an electric motor as thats where we are heading. Even Hydrogen power you will need some balls to mess with that.The best solution is to max the credit card at rhdjapan and live for now and not tomorrow as were all going to end up as classic car restores.
ever worked with electric vehicles? do you know there capabilitys?
my mate built most of this(VXL) the fastest landspeed record holding milkfloat, and it wieghed a ton, i have seen the metal work on so heavy
http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/race.html
and the VXL did actually get past 100mph aswell. my mate still has a lot of the controllers and motors from the VXL i think, i believe they are making there way into a mk2 escort estate.
electric vehciles if i remember rightly have no mots, no road tax, little insurance etc


as for VR4s in ten years, probably still be running in someones kitchen as a washing machine /lol

[orionn2o]

This is half the reason that I have a VR4 now rather than in years to come! Because you have to live for now!

In a few years time everyones cars will be tracked and we'll all get banned the second you creep over 30 ! And fuel prices are only ever going to go up I would think :(

[pitslayer]

the only way to solve the problem is someone to find the death certificate for my great great grandad :( :( :( apparently he was really really rich, as in my great great grandad
grandad used to play with gold shillings. he owned what is now known as the valley line, basically alot of land. a familly member looked into it and apparently if we were to provide a death certificate, we can claim inheritance to the sum of bankrupting the state, the land and interest is worth that much. however he died before death certificates, so we cant.
but bankrupt the state, buy myself an island....or just keep the uk and kick everyone out go live somewhere else, border control will shoot first ask questions later and i will have the biggest high speed race track in the world

[bernmc]

Victimised yet again :bigcry:

I'm not sure I can take it much longer...

and BTW, surprisingly, despite having a hundred more horsepower, the GTR is more economical than the slushboxed VR$!

[HJM]

and just as badly built !!! :laugh:

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[Kieran]

and just as badly built !!! :laugh:

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A VR-4 is badly built?! Mmmm, don't think so!/pan

[Nick Mann]

I, too, imagine that in 10 years petrol prices will be even more extortionate. I'm not sure I completely believe that electric cars a re a bad thing, though.

Hydrogen fuel cells are the way forwards, IMO, and can give quite an impressive amount of energy. The hydrogen can be made safer than petrol and I'm sure motor upgrades will be available!

Like all new technologies, it will take a time for the modifiers to get into them, but it will happen - there will still be speed freaks, no matter what is powering the cars!

[bernmc]

Amended.:scholar:

snh! snh! snh!

[Wodjno]

What do you think a gallon of Super will cost in 10 years time :thinking:

[miller]

Current inflation rates about €7.00 a litre.....ten years time it will all be Euros!