Reliable and British

[LDB]

Mutually exclusive terms? Not in the case of these cars.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enth...c106a543b85447

[Draigflag]

I'd question those "reliability" sources myself, lotus stands for "lots of trouble, usually serious". The F-type is next on my hit list, prices have dropped alot, when I'm done with the Porsche I'll be on the hunt for a V8.

[JockoT]

Triumph TR2 might be considered reliable as a collector's car but they certainly were not as a daily run around back in their heyday.

[LDB]

Ha, I never heard that one about Lotus before. I wondered about them but mainly wanted to post it to see if we got some conversation going. This is a tough crowd, although it seems there's really just a handful of us that make up the site, at least the communicative portion thereof.

Is Danderhall near Edinburgh? I really hope to visit that area someday, the entire UK really.

[JockoT]

Yes. To all intent and purpose, Danderhall is in Edinburgh. It is a one-time mining village right on the edge of the city itself. We are in a different council. Midlothian against Edinburgh City.
There is talk about introducing charges for taking cars into Edinburgh and we fall 200 yards outside the free zone!

[LDB]

So if you were 250 yards to the (direction to Edinburgh) and every day you drove the opposite direction to work then when you came home you'd have to drive 50 yards into the zone and get charged a fee for coming home an extra 50 yards?

[JockoT]

No. If you live in the zone you can travel in and out for free. If you live outside the zone you have to pay to travel in. The annoying thing is we are still in the built-up area 4.4 miles from the centre of the city, but the village of South Queensferry, a 10-mile country drive away is considered inside the zone.

[LDB]

Interesting stuff. We don't have anything similar, at least anywhere I'm familiar with. So if someone is coming from Perth and drives into South Queensferry on their way to Edinburgh do they drive out of the zone once they get through South Queensferry and if they do does that mean they have to pay again when they enter the zone in Edinburgh proper? Or what if they live somewhere like Bathgate and drive in in the morning then go home at lunch and back in in the afternoon, are they charged twice in the same day?

[JockoT]

The zone stretches out to South Queensferry so once you enter it you stay in it, but yes if you drive home for lunch to Bathgate you may possibly have to pay twice or it may be a daily charge. It is still only in the discussion stages at the moment.
There is however a LEZ in place for the centre of the city but it will not be enforced until June 2024.

[Draigflag]

Can't be worse than the London ultra low emission zone. Honestly don't know how people are expected or an afford to pay an extra £15 a day on top of petrol/parking etc just to get into central London. Crazy world. Glad I live rural.