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I know we are all doing the same but £1.19 /l !!!! what the f***. £50 used to give a full tank now I get just over 3/4 full . I know I can drive like a grampy ( 23.5 mpg ave , I know really sorry should use the loud pedal more) but this is getting seriously silly. Particularly when we all know the money is mostly tax AND 3/5 of 7/8 of F all goes on the roads , which in turn are sh**e. And the heavy tax goes nowhere to the BS greenhouse "charity". Ahhhhhhhhhh. [:mad:][:mad:]

Sorry , sorry rant over . Why do we tolerate this? I know it wont be different under any Party in power , just really makes me very annoyed. The greenhouse thing is such a bandwagon / excuse to rip everyone off, without real alternatives being progressed. Yes I know the electric cars , but all you are doing is displacing the generation point and pollution to the power station , and the relative inefficiency means probably even more gross pollution etc. etc etc. ( Yul Brenner).

Lastly, in my defence my wife gets a more respectable 18.2mpg from her Porsche and so the cosmic balance is maintained .[:)]

Just been told could well be £1.50 / l !!!!! soon . Just going off to a darkened room...
 
Cost me £70.70 to fill up this evening with some Shell V-Power! Think that's my highest ever petrol bill.

Did manage 27mpg though on a 200 mile round trip on Sunday though which wasn't half bad as all A-Roads and wasn't exactly going slow [;)]


 
So Alex ,which Ferrari model did you get ? or do you have them all now..

just one more for the full collection for me [:)]

garyw
 
I was going to get 2 (as it's a Ferrari per £30) but the only one they had that I wanted was the F430 [:D]
 
Hey at least the 997 has a 'small tank' to fill - my daily runner MB consumed over £106 today! And thats a diesel[&:]
My electric bike does 15 miles on a charge though[:D][:D][:D]
Graham
 
Diesel now costs more than V power - a small consolation! Pump prices set for big rise in October so enjoy the summer if we get one.
Depreciation is still the biggest cost - a classic Porsche for pleasure use is my philosophy unless you can run a Porsche as a business expense.
 
Ouch! £106!

And there I was thinking that last night's most expensive refill ever of £58.50 for V-Power was outrageous!

Let us not forget that 3/4 of this expense is Tax... The fuel protestors had the Government by the you-know-whats and then let them off.. 2 seconds later, the Government introduces a bill to make a repeat of such protests illegal. So now what can we do?

 
With the BMW in dock(failed turbo),we were forced[:)] to go for a weekend to Inverness 2weeks ago in the 964.For the return trip.it did 28.3 mpg over M6,M74,M8,A9,etc.
With the cost of diesel factored in,I don't think it was any dearer than the BMW would have been,as I only get 31+mpg on long runs,locked in 5th in cruise control.I don't care whatever people say about"if you can afford "etc I still watch the costs and the reliable classic example makes sense;why fund depreciation,I'd rather spend it myself.
 
I just had to get the ferrari enzo!!! when I filled up at shell, a seriously cool car!!!
what iIdon't understand is that we have increased the bhp going from 996 C2 to 997GT3 but out mpg has increased, feeling rather pleased that our other main car is a lexus hybrid which does 30 mpg for a great big carrying machine, lots of room to bring home new washing machine/ lcd tv/ etc etc home rather than having to get it delivered. Beware though on stealth mode (ie electric motor) you can run loads of people over as they don't hear you coming!!![:)]
Have just got a Ford Ka for the kids to drive, had it 1 week, driven it twice and already had the radio knicked out of it whilst parked outside. Now reported it to the police, and they sent a policeman round!! when we had the volvo 850 T5 pinched off the drive never saw a policeman at all???? very strange???...
there you are my rant over, feel much better[:D]
 
Well not sure about filling an Enzo not(F 40) , would be nice tho[;)] ,but seem to be supporting Shell for about £200 week and 'she' seems to be about the same.
Maybe the Lupo is the answer[:D]
 
Managed to get £74.50 worth of V power in the 993 last week, only £1.13/L in Scunthorpe and got a free Ferrari F430 thrown in too. Didn`t realize Fezza depeciation was exceeding that of the 996
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I have just returned from a visit to Dubai....Petrol there costs 84 pence per GALLON!!!

Explanation I received is that it is totally tax free!

Who is the government kidding?
 
V-Power and nothing else, used to cost me £60 to fill the tank, no idea what that would be now though, certainly in the 70's"¦ Pound a litre I could cope with, things were easy to calculate, can't change the way I drive as I only get to take her out every now & then and tend to stay on the excited side of vooosch"¦ £1.50 pl, now that is going to hurt. - Still, even then it will still be cheaper and fast than public transport.
 
ORIGINAL: fireblade

I have just returned from a visit to Dubai....Petrol there costs 84 pence per GALLON!!!

Explanation I received is that it is totally tax free!

Who is the government kidding?
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This government is not bothering to kid anybody. They know they can do what they like, when they like, and when the time comes to vote, the (less than 50percent) electorate will vote them in again.
Happy days!
I dont care.I've already pulled the drawbridge up!

JohnC
993turbo
 
I remember my dad putting a fiver in the Car.........this step change in petrol (& diesel) happened before in 1973.
It was a choice of "fill her up" or "a fiver" pls [:)]
Back then, they put the fuel in and you just handed the attendant the money.
George

944t
964
 
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