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Looks like they are small and light enough to count as a category B1 car? Which you'd be able to drive on a full motorcycle licence. If you fancy being overtaken by spotty youths on twist and go mopeds and cyclists. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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So you have to pay £250 to register your interest even though there is no price, no delivery dates and it doesn't guarantee you jack shit? If a Nigerian did that it would be called scamming. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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This bloke was an uber 'early adopter' - he was driving an electric micro car in the UK back in 1977!
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What we really could do with in the UK are more kei cars. There are a few in the UK but they make loads of them in Japan.
A lot of them are really very cool but they are also small, light anf fuel efficient. It's a market a bit like the 250cc Japanese sportsbikes of the early 90's, if they qualify as a kei car, they are cheap to tax, exempt from the most rigorous inspections and (I think) you don't need a full licence. As such all the kids buy them and they want something cool so it's a competative market. To qualify as a kei, they have to have an engine no bigger than 660cc and must fit inside an imaginary (small) box.
Mrs stinkwheel really wanted a Honda S200 but the cost of importing one was getting silly. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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stinkwheel wrote: | What we really could do with in the UK are more kei cars. There are a few in the UK but they make loads of them in Japan.
A lot of them are really very cool but they are also small, light anf fuel efficient. It's a market a bit like the 250cc Japanese sportsbikes of the early 90's, if they qualify as a kei car, they are cheap to tax, exempt from the most rigorous inspections and (I think) you don't need a full licence. As such all the kids buy them and they want something cool so it's a competative market. To qualify as a kei, they have to have an engine no bigger than 660cc and must fit inside an imaginary (small) box.
Mrs stinkwheel really wanted a Honda S200 but the cost of importing one was getting silly. |
Safety could be an issue, not much room for crumple zones. Also cost - they weren't that cheap, just cheaper on the road in Japan because of the taxation system. I'm also not sure about their fuel economy. They were good in the 90s, using fairly advanced 660cc turbo engines. Nowadays a diesel focus will return 50mpg, a same size hybrid will do more than 60 and electric is a thing.
All that said, it would be a lot nicer if cars in London trended towards Kei rather than 4x4. The roads aren't getting any wider. |
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https://youtu.be/hScjggOSAUU ____________________ Honda Varadero 125cc => Suzuki Bandit 650 33bhp => 77bhp =>
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I saw one, where windows were an optioinal extra, and it was already silly money, |
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Bhud wrote: | Can't imagine it being a big success in this country. Not safe, not cool, too expensive. People already get on a bus to get to Asda or Lidl, all the way across town, or jump in a big 4x4 to go to Sainsburys a couple of hundred metres away and across the road. Too much of an ask, culturally. Not much sense, practically.
In Spain and France, maybe. |
I have never understood why 125cc bikes and scoots haven't taken off as huge things over here. Cheap to buy, cheap to insure, cheap to fuel, etc. Overall much cheaper way of getting to most works than even public transport. Downside is rain exposure but since it doesn't rain as much as people believe it does in the UK it shouldn't be the definitive put-off factor:
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/rain-much-london-well-not-much-really/ ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 99 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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