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With the price on fuel going up day by day it'll be interesting to see how its going to effect the values on weekend toys. Not good time to have a V8 sat on the drive  |
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I was thinking about this the other day.
When I passed my test way back in 1980 it was £1.52 a gallon. It dropped the next year to £1.37.
At the time I earned £30 a week and we could afford fuel ok.
Now its somewhere around £7.50 a gallon - we think it's expensive as its gone up a lot recently - but really, in real terms it's far cheaper now than it was 40 years ago.
It's 5 times more expensive than 40 years ago, but wages have risen far more than 5 times over the same period.
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Paul
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I was running the same maths in my head only yesterday.
A litre of unleaded was 77p in 2000. The starting salary in my profession was £15,000.
Today it's 145p, up 88%. The starting salary is £26,000 - up 71%.
Being a petrolhead is an expensive hobby, but if you accept that and still get plenty of smiles to your mile it won't stop me fuelling up my fleet on the rare chance I get out in them.
That's another thing - I drive a 50+mpg daily, and the V8 only occasionally gets rolled out at the weekend for short hops - that £30 in the tank is good for a couple of weekend bimbles no matter what.
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£30 + V8 = couple of weekend bimbles? Where you going up and down your drive  £30 wouldn't last me me a couple of hours! in my V8  |
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Paul
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£30 + V8 = couple of weekend bimbles? Where you going up and down your drive £30 wouldn't last me me a couple of hours! in my V8 The CROWN Vic is surprisingly respectable on mpg for a V8  |
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Ah but on a positive note - with the soaring price of electricity the rush to electric cars might be slowed and we get to keep our petrol engines a little longer . . . . . . . . Yes, I know  |
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stealthstylz
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Fuel prices......... stealthstylz
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I'd imagine it'll make it difficult for many. I went on a extended (40 miles approx) test drive in a Procharged, big block 57 Chevy the other week which is supposed to be mainly a road car. I wasn't pootling around but I wasn't going that fast and still did 40 quid of juice in. Makes the car pretty pointless imo, always makes me sad when you see hot rod type stuff sat at 56mph with trucks. I mean it'd mean going to Santa Pod would be best part of £300 in fuel for a return trip, which is insane.
On the positive side with the towing laws now been relaxed everybody will be able to trailer their V8 stuff around.
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I was at the garage the other day filling up the daily and a couple of cans. You know you have that feeling when someone is staring at you.... I was getting some evil looks and tutted at by a little old lady. When I came back from paying she was still filling up so a nice wave and off I went.....
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Rob M
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Fuel prices......... Rob M
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Realistically, the cost of a full tank has been going up gradually, it isn't like we are suddenly having to find another £10 to fill our tanks up, is it.
Our passion has never been 'cheap' and many of us participate to the exclusion of alcohol, ciggies, chocolate or other things that people spend their money on but we don't.
Cars are what we are and what we do, we don't think too hard about how much it costs us, we just do it.
I just top my Pontiac up when it gets towards half a tank, it doesn't hurt too much that way and I have just bought a new modern that is unlikely to see 40mpg average in my ownership.
In the great scheme of things, in a crazy, dangerous world, I am hardly going to give a monkeys about it.
While there is blood flowing through me and I can still pay the bills, I will keep on filling up the fuel tanks and driving.
We have to have some pleasures in life!
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Just put a splash in the truck at £1.63 a litre. It does seem a little steep, but for some reason a couple of stations where I live have no fuel, and I had to que for a little bit to get mine. Is there something going on I don't know about?
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Get in the V8 and drive it like you stole it, Vlad the Impaler could nuke us all next week!
Steve
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£30 wouldn't last me me a couple of hours! in my V8 
