EU latest idea!

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:03 pm

Space1999 wrote:...Still, there you go, no point in having a VTEC Prelude now is there?

That's a joke, right????!

Space1999 · Post by **Space1999** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:24 pm

@ bb1boy

Actually, we could all go back to cars with carburettors and no engine management, as they wouldn't be easy to electronically speed limit - so I better get my TR7 back on the road, it's going to be faster than a new Lamborghini if Brussels has its way!

bristol_bb4 · Post by **bristol_bb4** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:37 pm

Space1999 wrote:it's going to be faster than a new Lamborghini if Brussels has its way!

technically just as fast, not 0-70 though

Post by **Donald** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:58 pm

So when do we get to vote to leave the EU then?

Probably never. After all there was never a vote to join was there? All I know is that being part of the EEC automatically meant you were in the EU when that was born and I was too busy playing Pokémon in the 90s.

bristol_bb4 · Post by **bristol_bb4** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:04 pm

Donald wrote:I was too busy playing Pokémon in the 90s.

the most sense you've ever spoken!

Post by **Donald** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:05 pm

This will blow your mind then:

Just filling up at a Shell station... Got chatting to an EK9 owner that wasn't a total gentleman's sausage and knew what a Prelude was

Fons[DutchGuy] · Post by **Fons[DutchGuy]** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:07 pm

F*ck it I'm becoming ghostrider the second if this apocalyptic thing is going trough

Post by **rob quilter** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:55 pm

Usual media bollocks, it isn't true and it'll never happen.

Space1999 · Post by **Space1999** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:21 pm

Hope you're right Rob. It's not the media that's announced this though, it's the EU. If it doesn't happen, then it will be down to hard lobbying, protests and writing to your MP and MEP.

Post by **Doggo** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:52 pm

I tend toward a little paranoia on what the EU will try and push through. However on this one I think it's a no go for at least a few decades, the reason being that despite the fact that the EU have pushed through some unpopular regulation it's usually happened when it has only been mildly unpopular everywhere, or of mixed popularity depending on where you were.

We've been talking about the UK, but I think this will be very unpopular everywhere. Not all, but enough politicians will worry enough about the backlash to prevent it happening.

That said, I am with Space1999 in that we do tend to be a bit passive about this kind if thing.

One final point - can you imagine being cranked over on a motorbike and a satellite pissing with your throttle? When they get there, they'll need to sort that one too...