If we really wanted to save the planet...
On the drive back from Wales yesterday a couple of things struck me... again whilst I was cruising along the M40 at 70mph a Prius with a bike rack on it came thundering past me. I'm lost if you buy a Prius aren't you saying "I care about the planet"... but then you flog a 1.4l engine to death over 80mph and even better stick your I'm-so-green mountain bike on the back to act like the air brake on an old Russian freighter! Bonkers. My new car - is a lot like the old one... I like the Peugeot 407 SW we'd had for 4 years that when I saw a "brand new" one for sale as a 2nd hand one at a knock down price I snapped it up. Now previously the 50mpg performance of the old one had impressed me, it is a large estate car after all. Well don't know what they have done in the intervening 4 years but the new one manages as near as damn it 60mpg! In fact the bit between Newtown to Shrewsbury which is all twisty A roads I managed to get 75mpg - why'd y...