Dear Boris Johnson ...

[Last of the Mohicans]

Anyone else going to be whacked with a £100 fine for driving a van with an XUD engine in it after January 3rd?

 

For the un-learned - Boris is going to be hiting anyone driving (for instance) a Fiat Scudo / Peugeot Partner with the 1.9D engine in it for £100 if theypoketheir nose into outer London.

 

Strangley though, if your Fiat Scudo / Peugeot Partner - built on the same day in the same factory and fitted with the exact same engine - has windows and is badged as a Fiat Ulyses / Peugeot 806 it's no longer a menace to Londons environment and gets to visit London for nothing.

 

The same engine is fitted in the Citreon Xantia and many other PSA cars - which also travel free and un-fined.

 

Does anyone know how Boris has come to this decision?

 

Does Boris know that the XUD is one of the few engines that can run unmodified on pure veg oil?

 

Anyone else going to affected by this silly and obviously arbritrary ruling and fancy getting a campaign together?

[MARTIN3030]

Does anyone know how Boris has come to this decision?

 

Does anyone know how Boris comes to ANY of his decisions ?

[cirian75]

the XUD is a legend, I wish I still had my 306 D-Turbo 1.9 XUD

[madmatt1009]

Unfortunately I suspect that the decision was made by TfL (Taliban for London)...It was a shame that Boris didn't carry out the purge of this Left wing, car hating throwback to the GLC created by Red Ken Livinstone and at least get rid of the Stupid Traffic Tax (I remember all the bull in the run up to it's introduction when he said it would be self funding (later requiring £m's additional taxpayers money) and it would reduce traffic queues! (despite TfL being caught playing with light timings to make traffic worse in the run up)