Another 5 scummy?

[Big Dave]

What do you reckon - we get 3-5 more years out of the V8s?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...658037458.html

[dino3310]

buy the time it hit's $8 we wont be running the kids around, i'll just buy them all electric scooters for comuting to school and town

[MIXONE]

Not just the V8's.My turbo 5 and 6 are both fully qualified petrolholics!!!

[scumdog]

Meh, my first reply got eaten by the 'puter system

But yeah, they'll be around for a bit yet.

Remember the "V8s til '98" slogan in Aussie? (or was it '88?) - and that was a while ago.

$8 a litre? pffft, I prophesise (sp?) $20 a litre.

It might take a while but it'll get there.

After all, when I was a boy it went UP to 50 cents a GALLON and that was considered a shocking price.

[dino3310]

oops hit the submit to quick.
as for the V8s, just replace them with a world suberbike round.
i dont know how there going to carry on with the V8s to many$$$ and not enough sale's, i reckon 3-4 years and it will only consist of a few round's like bathhurst,sandown etc.

[RiderInBlack]

So what ever happened ta Hydrocell? Maybe we will have "Mr Fusion" by then for our vehicles.
As for the V8 Supercars, they will have to be scaled down to the GSXR1000 Powered V8 look-a-likes they had at Taupo

[Big Dave]

For the record I was meaning the V8s we own.

[scumdog]

For the record I was meaning the V8s we own.

And at present we own about 26 litres of V8s, thankfully only about 13 litres worth are currently used on a regular basis.

[Big Dave]

Yeah the V12's gone.
And the supercharged V8 went back too.
Only got the mere 5ltr now.
Funny thing about the Limo - it's not that thirsty, you tend to crank the stereo, sit back and just putter around in it.

So ya wanna get in front of me?....go for it.
Computer - Change DVDs

[98tls]

Still not to bad if you have a wee run-around though eh,will admit my Falcon doesnt get used as much...put $20 in it the other day and i swear the gas guage didnt move.$20 in the wee mitsi lasts ages thankfully.

[imdying]

Every week it's a different figure and a different time frame. Time for the journos to change the record.

[Big Dave]

Every week it's a different figure and a different time frame. Time for the journos to change the record.

CSIRO is Australian for 'credible'.

By the same token it's also possible that alternative fuels will present evenchoooally

[Big Dave]

Still not to bad if you have a wee run-around though eh,will admit my Falcon doesnt get used as much...put $20 in it the other day and i swear the gas guage didnt move.$20 in the wee mitsi lasts ages thankfully.

My Mrs takes the car to work and I only have bikes. Balances out.

During the times I travel (outside peak) there is noticably less traffic in Auckland now.

[dino3310]

For the record I was meaning the V8s we own.

my estima eats more gas than my mate's V6 comodore, so we bought an
old honda shuttle to run about in, save's us $50 a week. we only useing the people mover once a month, might have to look at the toyota prius hybrid when it get's over $3 ltr. they reckon only 4.3 ltrs per 100klm.

[peasea]

Who gives a rats arse?
When I bought my first car (a V8) gas was 47c a GALLON. I only earned 25 bucks a week though, so it's all relative I suppose. (Pouring all my wages into the tank back then meant I could score roughly 230 litres and I can do way better than that these days....)

I've never cared about the price of gas, almost always had a V8 in the shed and I don't see things changing in the forseeable future. We don't, however, use the beast on a daily basis, it's the wet-weather tourer generally speaking.

Today's V8's aren't that thirsty anyway.