Stagflation's back

Posted by: rupert bear on 14 February 2008

Party's over, it was too good to last etc.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/14/bankofenglandgovernor.economics

Wonder how many hifi companies will disappear this time? I see digital radio is already becoming a casualty.
Posted on: 14 February 2008 by Diccus62
Yup, i've sent the Bentley back and bought a second hand Prius

Winker
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by DAVOhorn
A Prius????

Why a PRIUS????

Dragging all those batteries around and the weight of them sucking the life blood out of the poor little engine which has to drag the car batteries passengers etc along when battery is discharged.

Why not ditch the batteries and get a car that is lighter and thus burns less fuel??

I just do not get Hybrid cars.

David
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by BigH47
+ costs of recycling/disposal of all those batteries too at end of life.
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by Willy
Not to mention damage done to the environment making them.

Willy.
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by Derek Wright
A Hummer allegedly has a lower "dust to dust" carbon cost than Prius due to the simpler materials used it and the expected longer life of the Hummer is longer than that of the Prius.
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by Jim Lawson
quote:
Originally posted by Derek Wright:
A Hummer allegedly has a lower "dust to dust" carbon cost than Prius due to the simpler materials used it and the expected longer life of the Hummer is longer than that of the Prius.


Interesting. Do you have a link to that info?

Jim
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by Derek Wright
A couple of links that put the question mark over the Prius
linka

linkb
Posted on: 16 February 2008 by dsteady
quote:
Originally posted by Derek Wright:
A couple of links that put the question mark over the Prius
linka

linkb


I read the first link and it actually puts the question mark over CNW, who is the marketing firm who attempted to put the question mark over the Prius.

It sounds like the Hummer v. Prius study was flawed or at least built on some dubious assumptions, like the average Hummer H2 having a 379K lifetime mileage and the average Prius only having 109K. Where the hell did they come up with that?

daniel
Posted on: 17 February 2008 by NaimDropper
My money would be on a Toyota ANYTHING having a longer mileage life than a General Motors ANYTHING...
David (owner of 4 Toyotas and 0 GMs)
Posted on: 18 February 2008 by JohanR
quote:
My money would be on a Toyota ANYTHING having a longer mileage life than a General Motors ANYTHING...
David (owner of 4 Toyotas and 0 GMs)


Me to. Two GM vehicles has been two to many.

JohanR
Posted on: 18 February 2008 by djftw
lol, first rule of motoring, buy European or Japanese!
Posted on: 18 February 2008 by rupert bear
quote:
Originally posted by NaimDropper:
My money would be on a Toyota ANYTHING having a longer mileage life than a General Motors ANYTHING...
David (owner of 4 Toyotas and 0 GMs)


A female relative of mine bought a mark3 Prius a couple of years ago, loved it, then drove it into a bit of local flooding in January - and the insurance co plus Toyota chappie wrote it off due to the electrics!

I'd wait for the mark 4. I guess the answer to the question 'what's the point of a hybrid' is that it is at least trying to do the non-petrol thing more greenly than anything else.
Posted on: 18 February 2008 by djftw
True, it's still early days for hybrids and there is as always perils associated with early adoption! I'm still half laughing half crying about the fact that Lexus have bought out some hybrids that take up more road space and get far worse mileage than my diesel Audi, but I have to pay the congestion charge if I fancy driving into London (can't see why I would, but it's the principle of the thing), and they don't!