The demise of the tow car?

I agree N99, at nearly 74 a severe back problem has forced us to sell the caravan, and question whether we really need a big 3 litre tow vehicle any more.  But my ML350AMG is by far the best towing vehicle I have owned in 40 years of caravanning.  It runs on AdBLU and its recent MOT showed almost no pollutants, but to the dealers it is a dreaded diesel. Spotless and only 4 years old I shall probably keep it, pity the factory fitted tow bar will no longer be needed.

TF

I agree that fossil fuel tow vehicle use can be prolonged way beyond the point when most cars on the road will be electric, assuming fossil fuel remains available of course.

But why struggle with this anxiety?

Why feel we need to continue hauling two ton 8 ft wide 30ft long conch shells in an age when small is the new beautiful?

An aggregate circa 5 ton car/caravan train, often just for the use of two people, not out of necessity but out of, in lot of cases a “look at me on my holiday” showcase need.

We all know that an Englishman’s car is his castle

But we all know too, that it’s utterly unsustainable and that these ancient mechanical puffing dinosaurs will disappear from our roads with the equal certainty of it being morning again soon. And rightly so, we’ve had it too good for too long.

And after we have got rid of all the internal combustion engines, gas boilers etc guess what, we will still have global warming just as we have for millions of years.

Alternatively, I read an article that stated that the rise in temperatures we’ve seen in the last 50 years, took 20,000 years in the past.

Thinking only of those ICE vehicles !!

Brian looks back to his ( distant ) childhood when there were quite a few back street garages & workshops working away merrily on 1930's that is pre-war motors, keeping them running quite well. Vehicles like Austin 7, 10, 16 , Singers, Fords.

 Are we really thinking that our engineering talent is so faded that we won't see similar workshops fettling up our Kia, Mitsi, Ducato  or whatever.

{ Still it's very good of  Davembk  to dig out this 2016 post tho'  quite brings back old times  }