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Like hell they do.

Indian owned.

Maybe TVR or Morgan

Id have to repeat that.

Frim mempory if you wanted te engine to dop 120,000 miles that was new big ends every 30,000 and new main berainsg ebveryu 60,000 and at 100% teh oild burining was spo fierce you really needed new stepped rings or a rebore, decoke every 60,000, new points every 10,000, and gap check at least every 6 months. TRhe chain tensioner woiuld need replacing around

In general the carburettor spindle would wear a leak in about 60,000 miles leading to rough idling amd flat spots.

But after 10 years the thing had rusted to pieces anyway.

The War was really won by the industrial capability of the United States and Canada,the Mineral resources of what was then either friendly or controlled counties of Empire and dictatorship of the Soviet Union willing to lose vast numbers of personnel. Britain may have entered the War for the right reasons but in reality it was ill prepared for it and soon found itself unable to resolve the situation as it wished by itself and did end up Bankrupt. Sounds like the situation the leavers have got us into.

GH

No it wasn't the root of it started after WWII the UK invested heavily in aircraft and weapons manufactuer as that's where the big money was and as manufacturing in the UK was tooled up for such aventuire it continued, Germany and Italy were banned from producing weapons of war as part of the peace agreement, so what was left for those countiries to produce, cars and later motor bikes similar to japan. The UK used the money to build up the NHS and replace the infrastructure destroyed in the war.

Because they weren't allowed to invest in much elese that could be sold. There was a TV documentry about this a few months ago. British factories went with aviation, weapons & amunition sales, that why we were the first with the jet engine and the fiorst jet engine passenger jet and the forst (along with france) the first supersonic passenger jet. Or you could tell me about German aircraft engineering that did well after the war. Where's the German equivalant of teh English electric lightning or the vulcan or the harrier, or of course concorde.

well the boxster was the boy racers entry level porsche, I'd prefer an aston martin vantage or DB11 .

Wonder for how many more years the likes of you will still be blaming WW2 for our woes?

You have a small two seater convertible Jaguar, do you? With a mid engine?

Or in your Utopian post Brexit UK people will be forced to buy whatever the UK makes?

Sounds rather like just post WW2 Britian. Says it all, really.

Total and utter bollocks.

My father had the very first OHV Minor in Scotland. It wore out its engine in little more time than the first set of tyres.

Neither of those is anything like a Boxster. The Boxster is a very compact

I'm not a particular Porsche fan - I'd run a mile from a 911. Often bought for all the wrong reasons. And don't get me started on their Chelsea tractors.

Ah - right. So having invested so heavily in aircraft etc, must now be a world leader>

It is with Airbus.

Aston Martin, then.

Thank you for that scrupulously considered response.

I'd guess your father, being a good Scotsman, would have skimped too much on the servicing. Your claim above only applies to one single badly- maintained car and is therefore entirely untypical of that make and model and consequently of little value. A pal of mine still uses a '65 moggie as his daily driver to work and back. Will a Nissan Leaf still be around half a century from now?

Staggering nonsense there. When I was a young man a car with 50,000 on the clock was considered to be at the end of its life. almost any car engine will do 200,000 miles now if you change the oil.

TW

Congratulations. Some good sense and some truth in your post! TW

In article snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> writes

That would be about 8k miles then:-)

Isn't TVR Russian owned?

In article snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> writes

Well US cars can become a lot cheaper. Having owned 2 Jeeps I would welcome that.

And you'd be wrong there too - as with so much else. He looked after his cars very well indeed. Serviced on the dot.

I'd have thought even you might know there were lots of MM varieties. The original had a side valve engine and other Morris bits. After BMC, is was fitted with Austin mechanicals. And the first A series engine - 803cc - was notoriously short lived. Things became better when the 1000 arrived.

And some cycle to work too. Not sure what that proves, as you've just said, with one example.

There will almost certainly still be some - as with all cars. Whether they'll all be in museaums is the more pertinent question.

I've thought for a long time Doom was from another planet. And claiming to know about classic cars when talking such s**te proves it.

The last car I owned which wore out its engine was an Austin 1800. With a similar engine design to the MM. It made about 90,000 miles. Then needed a total engine overhaul - re-bore, crank grind etc. In those days there were plenty machine shops around to do such work. Not so today.

Any car ever made can last forever. If you're willing to pay the costs of doing so.