i cant see it but you never know

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199311/Millions-modified-classic-cars-banned-roads-meddling-European-Union-try-shake-MOT-rules.html

Date of publication 2012...

didnt see that, just came in on a news feed from today.

Ah. Usual Daily Fail nonsense.

 

As Andrew says, this was back in 2012 and was the usual media *****cks

I seen Daily Mail and carried on with my day

They will never ban classic or modified cars as there is far to much money involved plus all the jobs. It would be an instant recession

Plus define modified. So let's assume this to the letter, any part that is not as it left the factory is therefore a modification, technically. So in an alarmist extension would be to say therefore that an part not made by the manufacturer is a mod. Which means places like euro car parts are stuffed. Most cars on the road wouldn't be road legal. It's all *****cks. This doesn't even take into account the policability of it, cars with limited production runs, for example Jensen, it's a known fact that two cars could leave the factory with different diffs for example, which ones "correct" how can you decern what, should be fitted. Where not just talking pikey boy racers either, hurses, limos, hell even ambulances are modified examples of normal cars. The tax collected from aftermarket car parts and kit cars would take a heavy hit too. You'd need a database of what ever car ever produced has as a factory standard, that's not only horrendously expensive but doomed to fail. Some may remember a purge on noisy exhausts, multiple TVR and Scooby owners were aquitted after being handed tickets for factory exhaust systems.

 

Not policable, horrendously expensive and damaging to the economy. For those three reasons alone make it common sense that it's a law to never see the light of day.

Scaremongering at best (or worst)*.......

 

......And another possible reason to quit the EU at worst (or best)*......

 

Richard :cool:

 

* = read as which ever way you affiliate with....:wink:

I can't see how Europe can even think about it with the amount of old classic American cars are on the road in Sweden