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what's the smallest car you could possibly live with?

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  • 17-06-2008 7:22pm
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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    If the powers that be decided that from next month on cars would be taxed by horse power instead of CC / CO2 ...say ten euro per every 1 bhp (= 1000 Euro p.a. for 100 bhp) ...

    Consider your requirements / how much you'd be willing to spend on the new car tax ....what car would you drive?

    Me, personally, considering that I only do 7 country miles to work and back ...I'd probably get myself an old Renault 4 (34 bhp) or 2CV (28 bhp) and forget about any motoring aspirations I've ever had.

    What about you ?


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    Matt Simis
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    I would very likely leave this country if that happened. Or lie about engine size or something.


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    markos79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭markos79


    Honda_50.JPG

    ok its not a car but it is a beauty!!!:D


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    That's a good question! If I were single it'd probably be back to my first car, a Lancia Fulvia 1.3 sport. 90bhp, and it made every last one count!


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,456 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    something with a truck engine producing low bhp but lots of torque and smoke.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,927 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I drive a 55hp Fiat Panda as it stands! Not going any lower...


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    something with a truck engine producing low bhp but lots of torque and smoke.
    Like a Passat TDI?


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    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    I drive a 1.4 civic at the moment and I couldn't drive anything smaller!


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    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    something with a truck engine producing low bhp but lots of torque and smoke.

    Something like this perhaps Colm..

    Jesse%20James%20Peterbilt02.jpg

    1972 Peterbilt Semi engine turned into a trike. :D


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    c-p50.jpg

    The aul Peel P50 would do me grand!


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    MCMLXXXIII
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    Right now I have 235hp, which is the least I have ever had...I can barely stand it. I am definately getting something bigger for my next car.


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    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    If that were to ever happen I'd say I might bend a become a customer of this shower. :D
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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,244 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    One of these:

    walking%20car_thumb.jpg

    Or possibly one of these:
    110-funny-car.jpg


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    car6.jpg

    :D


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    homer90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭homer90


    peasant wrote: »
    If the powers that be decided that from next month on cars would be taxed by horse power instead of CC / CO2 ...say ten euro per every 1 bhp (= 1000 Euro p.a. for 100 bhp) ...


    Jeez dont be giving the greens any more Ideas !! :p


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    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    MCMLXXXIII wrote: »
    Right now I have 235hp, which is the least I have ever had...I can barely stand it. I am definately getting something bigger for my next car.

    What was your first car?


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I'd be back on a motorbike if that happened. My old Virago had a massive 11 horsepower :D


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    cabrwab
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭cabrwab


    Shhhh, jesus careful now! Down with this sort of talk!

    I have only had 1.4's so nothing lower, there slow enough! Imagine paying 970euro tax on a corrolla!
    iam a big chap to i need a biggish car, smallest would be golf/corrolla size (reality speaking not in this crazy new tax system op is suggesting!)

    But torque diesels will still be charged by hp so everyone would be up s*itcreek.

    Clarkson could fit in the peel so i guess the peel it'd be! ill get a little trailer for the woman!


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    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    You could always use a donkey and car until some idiot scientist complains about the donkey farting causing more pollution. I heard somewhere that people walking cause as much pollution as cars. You can't win the only solution is to blow the world and everything on it to bits.


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    FunkyDa
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭FunkyDa


    How about a Fiat 500 Estate? :D


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Wouldn't mind a Trabant 601 either:

    f_YellowTrabam_4370ec0.jpg


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    JHMEG
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Wouldn't mind a Trabant 601 either:
    The waiting list was what made them famous. As cars go they were utter rubbish.


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    JHMEG wrote: »
    The waiting list was what made them famous.

    Well there wasn't really much of a choice in the GDR. It was either that or a Wartburg or a Lada of some sort.


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    Marcus.Aurelius
    Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭Marcus.Aurelius


    Emigration before taxation!!!

    :pac:


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    MCMLXXXIII
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭MCMLXXXIII


    il gatto wrote: »
    What was your first car?
    My first car had 250hp, then I went to 340hp - which was great, but slightly more than I needed on a daily basis...I'm on my 3rd car.


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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Fiat 500 1.4 turbo.

    Actually, I'm quite looking forward to it :D:D:D

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    2008-MINI-Cooper-S-i001.jpg


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    biko wrote: »
    2008-MINI-Cooper-S-i001.jpg

    That's what I had in mind also - do you know what BHP the original Mini Cooper had?

    @Anan1 - was your car like this one? Very nice.


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    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Smart roadster?

    mmc_smart_roadster_xx.jpg


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    Volvoboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Meh i'm still trying to get my head around the latest one, my tax has gone up from €72 to €79 for the year.:mad:













    How does that grab ya?:D:D


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    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,867 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I started off with a 1.3, then another, then a 1.9TDI and now a 2.0TDI

    Couldn't even go back to the 1.9 tbh... that extra 0.1L makes all the difference :D


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