Your top 10 motoring wishlist for 2012?

Leonard Hofstadter

As inspired by the thread started on Autocar:

1 - downsizing is reversed and manufacturers go back to making larger capacity non turbo engines, modern cars are way too complicated for their own good
2 - Irish people start buying decent spec cars with decent engines rather than poverty spec and smallest and/or least powerful possible engine
3 - road tax is a flat rate of say €400 - tax the fuel if you want to reduce emissions!
4 - Irish people actually look after and service their cars
5 - the motorway speed limit is increased to 140 or maybe more
6 - the UK/NI uses kph instead of mph for speed limits
7 - dual carriageways are given a limit of 120!
8 - the RSA and speed cameras are scrapped
9 - a ban on ultra low profile tyres and other 'felt spec' items
10 - change of the registration system to remove the year and to allow people change county if they are that sad

.... not one for a Friday afternoon :pac:

**Timbuk2**

captainspeed wrote: »

7 - dual carriageways are given a limit of 120!

Some dual carraigeways have a speed limit of 120km/h, e.g. the N1 in Louth or the N25 in Cork.

doopa

captainspeed wrote: »

As inspired by the thread started on Autocar:

1 - downsizing is reversed and manufacturers go back to making larger capacity non turbo engines, modern cars are way too complicated for their own good
2 - Irish people start buying decent spec cars with decent engines rather than poverty spec and smallest and/or least powerful possible engine
3 - road tax is a flat rate of say €400 - tax the fuel if you want to reduce emissions!
4 - Irish people actually look after and service their cars
5 - the motorway speed limit is increased to 140 or maybe more
6 - the UK/NI uses kph instead of mph for speed limits
7 - dual carriageways are given a limit of 120!
8 - the RSA and speed cameras are scrapped
9 - a ban on ultra low profile tyres and other 'felt spec' items
10 - change of the registration system to remove the year and to allow people change county if they are that sad

Would agree with 2,4,6.
Improved signage on the roads would be my No.1.
With 10 - I'd like to move to the German system where the car is registered to the city(local authority) so if you or the car move the registration plate changes. Personally I like the year system.

cjmcork

a minimum speed limit should be put in place, anyone that goes below it should have their tyres shot out and never be allowed to drive again......thus reducing road rage, and saving the HSE on treating heart attacks, etc.......see, the government would save too!!!

Wile E. Coyote

Not really seeing the point in number 10. Why remove the year?

WestWing

3 - road tax is a flat rate of say €400 - tax the fuel if you want to reduce emissions!
Forget that. I'm happy with my band B rate.


6 - the UK/NI uses kph instead of mph for speed limits

For what reason .
Don't most speedometers display both? (except for digital displays)

Wile E. Coyote

WestWing wrote: »

6 - the UK/NI uses kph instead of mph for speed limits

For what reason .
Don't most speedometers display both? (except for digital displays)

I think a lot stopped using the dual display when it officially changed to KPH. I know mine only shows KPH but it's not hard to convert it.

EL_Loco

Interesting list, just a few responses:

2: If it wasn't for overpricing and availability maybe this one would happen.

3: would you like the cost of all other goods in the country going up via higher transport costs for deliveries? Or would you waive commercial vehicles? I agree in principal, the more you use the more you should pay, but it has farther reaching implications.

4: see 2, everyone's in a heap and doesn't care.

5: You wouldn't get anywhere quicker unless you're doing it at 3 in the morning, day time driving, regardless of speed limit will have someone going slower than you. Fact of life.

6: minor, doesn't bother me.

7: See 5.

8: yeah maybe, speed ramps removed, we have a traffic corps now, let them do a bit of enforcement. Harsher financial penalties for traffic offences to help them pay for the traffic corps. Infinite penalty points, why ban the cash cows. (bans for anything that would traditionally get you banned though, not just a total of minor offences)

9: why? what am I missing, or just a pet peeve you have?