 M3AG wrote:
don't you pay more tax in Germany if
your car has no Cat? |
Ooooh yes!! About four times as much. This is why
you don't see eighties BMW's on the road much now,
i,e E28, E23, 6 Series etc. As soon as cats became
mandatory, they just dropped in valuye like a stone
as did the W123 Mercedes, Opel Rekord/Senator
etc. But as soon as the Berlin wall fell, there was
suddenly an huge market for cast off's. From a
Wartburg to a 1984 520i Auto was a huge step up
the ladder. Then when the East Germans started to
buy more and more new cars as their wealth
increased, these cars move further East into Poland,
Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Belorus, Ukraine,
Macedonia etc etc. Nothing that ran and drove was
thrown away. In Berlin there are huge compounds
filled with old cars waiting to go East. In Hamburg
are huge yards by the docks filled with old cars
waiting to go to Africa. This is why there are so few
scrap yards in Germany.
All along the road from Berlin to Poland are
transporters filled with old cars.
Horsetan - yes you're right about toilet humour. But
who is first on the beach with the stripey towels eh?!
P.S - anyone know how to reset an Apple mac so
that the column is not so narrow? It's giving me a
headache trying to read.
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