Independent ie article! Madness if you drive a ten year old plus car !

Have to agree with this. Climate change is as real as the fact it gets dark in the evenings and bright in the mornings. It's ridiculous to claim otherwise.

CO2 caused by driving cars, making them, travelling, in short every thing we do as a society is contributing to the problem. In short, to have the sort of lifestyles we take for granted in a country as well off as ours, means we're going to be polluting. And doing lots of it. Our need to replace things that are working away perfectly fine, but seem 'old tech', our desires to travel abroad, stay warm, whatever it is we want to do that means living, is all part of it.

I certainly don't agree that EVs are the solution, but I do agree that cars, and transport in general, is a significant contributor to the climate crisis.

The issue with petrol and diesel is the liquid we use to power them, the sooner synthetics can take off and be scaled up to replace fossil fuels, the better for the planet and society as a whole, not to mention petrolheads right around the globe. No need to have expensive, heavy and soul destroying EVs, and we can enjoy combustion engined cars genuinely guilt free once more. The other advantage of synthetic fuels is as well as reducing CO2 emissions to almost net zero is that other types of pollution from petrol and diesel, like carbon monoxide, particulates, etc is also significantly reduced - and we might even squeeze a few more horses out of our engines to boot. What's not to like about all of that?

I laughed at that new/3 yr old too, SIMI basically wrote that article themselves.

Bugs me that their name suggests they're some sort of NGO body concerned with all aspects of car based transport, when in fact they're just a car sales lobby group, many members of whom would happily sell you a 10 yr old car if they were making a profit

Ah here, there's no way you could know that, it could be totally rust free and running well. Age is no barometer of a car's general condition or road worthiness. Bit clueless like.

I'm guessing that's Japanese?

Utter tosh from Cunningham.

The most environmentally friendly car is the one that survives the longest, because there is no environmental positive to building new cars. Even if they ran on fresh air, they all consume raw materials and energy simply to exist.

If a car is maintained and is safe and meets emissions tests, it can be any age at all.

It's a bit like Groundhog Day when climate change sceptics pop up on random threads.

Your logic has convinced me.

New cars since 2017 or 18 are much better in offset frontal collisions. Go onto YouTube and see American Insurance institute testing for offset frontal. It's a real shame the passive safety didn't improve before the crappy unreliable long term tech came along though..In 10 years likely alot of 10 or 12 year old cars will be scrap.

Tjeyre talking about internal airbags now, inside the cranium, to prevent the jarring of the brain on impact, particularly as we age.

Looks like Eddie had the 100% cavity prototype fitted.

The safety argument is a valid one - it appears that NCAP also agree with the zero or one star for a 2001 Laguna II being tested today such is the pace with how the test standards and the safety offered by the latest 5 star cars has moved on. That video showing old versus new is well worth a look. Can’t believe they wrote off a beautiful Bel Air mind you

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/crash/why-your-old-five-star-ncap-car-isnt-safe-you-think-it?amp=1

I’ve a 2019 Volvo with all these fancy radar+ driving aids and although I didn’t buy it on safety grounds alone I’m a firm convert and would hate to buy and other car without auto brake, acc and auto LED headlights - Ie all features designed to avoid accidents, plus looking at the video of my car tested by NCAP does reassure me that it will stand up well compared to most other older cars. It is however a lot of money to buy a car like mine or indeed any new 5 star car and loads of ten+ year old cars provide excellent service.

That article isn’t well written but what do you expect with the Indo! Zero research or effort is par for the course but not just in the motoring section.

Im not sure I but the CO2 argument - I say forget about the stated CO2 figs as they keep changing the test and look at actual fuel consumption. I often saw 65mpg out of a 2004 Cordoba 1.9 TDI and I doubt a 2021 Leon can beat that today. I’d a friend who saw 70mpg out of similar age Megane 1.5 but the new ones today use that same basic engine but are much heavier so although are good on juice they aren’t as good as many 15 year old well serviced Meganes

There's something about weather stations ,like a third less than there used to be as well as no data from whole regions

How about a W140 (1991 design) hitting an E12 Corolla (2001 design). Huge amount of detailed info and images at the below link, both cars had serious damage to the passenger compartments but the Merc driver got out with moderate injuires wheras the Corolla driver died in hospital from a chest injury and had a bad leg injury.

https://crashviewer.nhtsa.dot.gov/nass-cds/CaseForm.aspx?xsl=main.xsl&CaseID=195009008

A W140 is newer, safer and heavier than a W126 and a 2021 Fiesta would also be safer and stronger (and more aggressive to its "opponent") than an E12 Corolla.

W126 and 2021 Fiesta hitting each other head on, yeah. I'd pick the Fiesta. Single vehicle collision or side impact or rollover I 'd definitely pick the Fiesta.

Apparently Gormley and the Greens wanted the year taken off plates back in 2008, they were ignored, pity people didn't keep ignoring them