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Too fast to leave, too cheap to buy for MPs
Tanya Giles 17mar05 THREE state MPs are still driving hotted-up sports cars, 16 months after they were banned by Premier Steve Bracks. The rev-heads do not have to hand over the keys to their cars -- two XR6 Fords and a Camry Sportivo -- until they clock over 60,000km, or three years of driving, and the cars are replaced. The high-powered cars were bought using a loophole in parliamentary guidelines allowing politicians to buy sports cars, with extras such as mag wheels and spoilers, as they cost no more than the usual luxury cars. About 30 MPs took advantage of the deal until Mr Bracks put a halt to the scheme in October 2003 after public outrage. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information by the Herald Sun show most MPs now drive standard luxury cars. Details of the car of choice for each politician were unavailable because of privacy laws. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...5E2862,00.html |
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Hell, I drive an XR6 and I dont consider it a "hotted up sports car" at all.
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Certainly a low point for journalisim when they are refering to a sportivo as 'hotted-up'.
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I wonder if they realise the xr6 has the same engine as the base model falcons?? lol
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Yeah saw that, and also thought it was a load :o)
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LMFAO Thats a lot of crap
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Sooner or later... Falcon XT's with the factory spoiler are going to be "high powered sports cars"........
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Bwahhahaah...
i'll make sure to avoid those sportivo's... they'll kill me on the road!
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if its written in the "Peoples Picture Book" then it must be true. And to think people pay money to read that crap.
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Ohh no. I cant have my Nana driving a High Powered Hotted up sports car......
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the media is stupid? When did this become a secret?
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I'll bet the camry forums (if there are any) have tripled their membership due to the notoriety gained thru this article
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But they didn't weigh 2 ton
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That's gotta be the funniest thing I've ever read!
Love to know what a GT is if a Sportivo is a hotted up sports car. I'm betting 'baby killer' will fit into the description somehow though. |
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You might not think of them as hotted up sports cars , but the insurance compnaies certainly do.For premium perposes you have a sports car , but as far as statistics go yoru are bundled in with the standard cars.
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Love that a loop-hole was found and abused... Wouldn't you??
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jornalism at its finest:( wtf do we pay these stupid pricks for?
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The Hun (tm) is at it again. Surprise surprise. Hardly jounalistic excellence. The amount of ridiculous stories they come up with really had to make you wonder whether they believe the crap they print.
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Loop holes are fantastic; We got an interim car at work, XR6 Turbo, and I got stuck going for a long delivery run in it...
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If they only thought about what they were doing, the only reason that they buy these cars at Government pricing is because they have a better re-sale than an XT, the public are actually paying out more to change them over into a XT rather than another XR.
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