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The government and Europe are only going to try to make our building lives harder or maybe even stop our hobby (or career in manufacturers cases!!!) altogether if they can so we should keep a unified front if at all possible.

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Those manufacturers who wanted to stay in business would make their cars complient with the tougher regulations. This may lead to cars having small volume type aproval and the builder having to assemble a car with a limited, specified list of optional parts. This might stop scratch built cars, unless a group of builders paid for low volume type aproval between them and build almost identical cars. It might be possible for one of the locost parts suppliers to get type aproval for a genuine locost and allow builders to buy enough parts from them to qualify for inclusion.



It might also push companies to make only turn key cars, stopping self build.

Low volume specialist cars won't stop, they might just get fewer in number and more expensive to buy.

Move! I suppose the only way then to get cars through a very rigid SVA test would be to have virtually a type approved kit where you have to buy everything from the manufacturer and just assemble it. Very little room for your own input to design etc.

Each kit would then be exactly the same.

Ah yes they call it a Ford Focus.

So the answer therefore is as I started, MOVE!

steve

sindicate and strike , make demonstration ther are bunch of people that will follow you ...

we change goverment like that it took few years but ... you are democratic country maybe thay will listen

No doubt there would be some sort of concession for those already building (as there was when the SVA test originally came in).

However it would be a nightmare for people who did want to build from scratch...

Perhaps it would require some sort of type approval for the manufacturers which would allow them to carry on in a way similar to Ariel or TVR? I can see that becoming a reality before too long...

Who knows? I for one would be glad I am started and any major changes would have much effect. But if I wasnt then I would probably try to buy a half finished one, or one thats already registered. Mind you, as you say the price would probably go up rather steeply.

David

i would just modify existing kitcars. They would never get scrapped as the v5 would be too valuble!

is it me this government is like Sven Gorn Eriksonn and a few others

they do jack shite jack shite lie lie lie etc etc cause nothing but problems

and everyone keeps voting them in!!!!!!

problem is no one sticks up for themselves in this country anymore


make your money and move abroad

we have to keep voting them because there is no better alternative. the closest we'd get to relative freedom would be the BNP which the government knows all too well hence the regular bad publicity the bbc puppets keep broadcasting about them. and major events tend to coincide with general elections.

personally i think guy falks had the right idea.
why do we put with them? we all know theyre a bunch of lying weasles yet we let them run OUR country.
what reason do they give for making kit car building harder? whats wrong with the current system?
if it gets harder then a lot of people (that is, a few more than usual) are going to be assesing the country they live in against all the others available and the odds dont look good for "great" britain.

I would have thought that all users of this sight would get themselves to downing street and chain themselves (and their cars) to the railings.
I'm not joking - I've waited more than 20 years to build my own car. If the government made this not possible, I would be SERIOUSLY pissed off.

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I would have thought that all users of this sight would get themselves to downing street and chain themselves (and their cars) to the railings.

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I thought that in france you could not have the exhaust sticking out anywhere on the car?

On a similar line, I heard from a friend of mine recently that the Gov't is thinking of introducing a rather expesnsive torsional stress based assesment to the sva. Anyone know much about this? Or is it, as i hope, complete ar*e?

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Originally posted by Dutchman
... you are democratic country maybe thay will listen

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Hey don't compare Tony B to the illuminati!

They were a 'noble' bunch

Tony B is just an idiot - plain and simple. If you thing George Bush is stupid - how stupid is Blair by being his puppet :-(