Geely Is Officially Coming To Canada

[AZ_HighCountry]

The second hand car market in the UK has always been very very good, far superior to most other countries

Over the last 20-40 years as long as you had about £1000-£2000 you could get a working 10 year old car that would still have plenty of life in it and would be good for years to come


This made life easy for millions of people


The cars, were mechanical
Easy to work on
You can take it to your local back street garage to get a broken part replaced cheaply
You could keep it going for decades if you wanted


That meant less people buying new cars, so they changed the laws

They made road tax on older cars VERY HIGH, £500-£700 per year, same as a super car

Then they bought in laws, where you couldn't drive older cars in town centres and other areas


Now the will END all petrol and diesel car production by 2030-35 and all new cars will be electric


They are forcing old cheaper cars off the road and the only option will be new electric cars which are complicated, your local garage can't fix and after ten years the batterys will be dead and need to be replaced for thousands of pounds




Ontop of that the price of cars has just gotten higher and higher, even basic junk is the best part of £20,000 now


Chinese cars are a solution, but they will destroy the European companies, so massive tarrifs are placed on them to inflate the price and take in taxes


The entire system is breaking down


I tend to buy new cars now, but I've advised friends to buy SOLID petrol and diesel cars with solid engines and low milage and just keep them running and fixing them when they need to

I don't understand why you folks in the UK allow this. Your politicians are hell-bent on penalizing you for everything.

Of course, similar things are happening here. The people simply refuse to accept it.

 

[Feroze]

Thats great to hear that this Chinese car Geely is coming to Canada.

I might buy it over a Toyota car.