grandad wrote:
You clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about. There are brand new limos being imported into the UK all the time and although I don't have any figures I would guess that the vast majority of limos being imported in the last couple of years have been 3 years old or less.
I was at Ascot on ladies day and I would guess that at least 35% of all the limos there were less than 3 years old and a further 50% would be less than 8 years old.
Take another look at the pictures of the crash test. The front of the limo "crumpled" just as it is designed to do. There was no indication on the programme or any pictures to show what the drivers compartment was like after the test. There was not even a mention of what would have happened to the driver. If you look under the bonnet of a limo you will see that the engine does not sit in front of the driver so my guess is that the driver would have escaped serious injury but this would not make good news for the programme makers.
I was told that there was going to be an assesment of the damage by a vehicle repairer but I suppose that if the result was that the driver would be ok, this would have been cut from the programme.
I might know sod, but they are still a pile of junk.
I went to Limo show at Sandown two years ago and the place was full of sharks, not racehorses. It was all trashy and glitz.
I was at Ascot the first four days and saw a few mobile cesspits. Not oneof them was anywhere near new.
The positive for me was that I didn't see one customer using them that I would want in one of my cars. Trash for trash.
Look at those pictures again. There is no way a driver got out of that with legs intact.
The real worry for me is the damage that would be done to passengers.
What we need is to get these tanks into our licensing system and see how many survive.
I would insist on tachographs and speed limiters first.
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