All advertising for new cars will have to carry cigarette-style “health warnings” about their environmental impact, under a European plan to force manufacturers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Companies that produce the most polluting cars will also have to pay penalties of up to £5,000 per vehicle, with the proceeds used to reduce the cost of the most efficient cars.Advertisements in newspapers and magazines, will have to devote at least 20 per cent of the space to details about fuel economy and CO2 emissions. At the moment manufacturers have to include only basic mpg and CO2 figures in the small print. They do not have to explain what the numbers mean or provide any comparison.
Read the rest of The Times article 'Carbon health warnings for all new cars.'
Thanks to Marc Morano for alerting me to this article.
Of course they were girls cars Luke. With colours like Hot Pink, & Purple people eater, what else could they be?
I have a funny & TRUE story about an XU1. In my transition from hasbeen racing car driver, to yachty bum, I met a realy "nice" couple, living on their boat at a Balmain [Sydney] marina. They were very middle of the road, & it was a surprising thing for them to do, in the late 60s.
Both school teachers, they were so middle of the road, that when they invited me to have a look at their new car, I expected a 4 pot Morris or Austin or some such.
The last thing I expected was the purple thing, with no ride height, & wide wheels, with XU1 on the back. They had a laugh at the look on my face & then told the story.
While signing up for a stock 4 pot Torana, [she liked the idea it was a Holden] they got to colour. She liked the purple one on the showroom floor, & after a good look at it, they said they'd take it. The salesman, who must have had a sense of humor, signed them up for the XU1. He showed them the monthly payments, which were ok, & that was that.
It was only 10 days later, when he first opened the bonnet, that he realised that it had too many carburetors, & was not what he'd expected.
Foul. Wiggling the goalpost by the red team.
I even spotted him hurricane deaths and elephant squishings, and the dude is still trying to sneak in drought and famine.
Can I get a ruling here? Where is that darned referee?
Well it's interesting that the NZ Govt wants more electric cars
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/GovermentwantsNZtoswitchtoelectriccars/tabid/209/articleID/36717/Default.aspx
Pity the REVA got canned by the Howard Govt.
Leading cause of death in young people is car accidents
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/pr17/en/index.html
Leading cause of death in children is diarrheal disease
http://www.oneworldhealth.org/diseases/diarrhea.php
Then you've got cardiac disease,stroke,cancer,AIDS-related illnesses...
A Torana,Luke? I'm impressed!
Lordy,I'd better have a Bex and a lie down now...
James many hundreds of thousands have repeatedly died from famine in African droughts. Try not to be so totally stupid. You might also look up hurricanes in Bangladesh.
Still good enough for Brocky to win Bathurst in.