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Well it appears to be a 2000+ Ford F-450 or F-550 1-ton. The way it's dressed up, it looks to be perhaps some sort of armored truck or government spec vehicle.
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ND4SPD
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Tree-d! 
Actually Joey, since it doesn't have a pickup box it would most likely be a F-450 or F-550 chassis cab.
Actually Joey, since it doesn't have a pickup box it would most likely be a F-450 or F-550 chassis cab.
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That truck is weird looking. I've never seen any armored truck or troop transport that only had armor (or something) on top of the truck, or a radiator on the outside of the front bumper. That's also an interesting brush guard design I've never seen before. From the looks of the armor it seems the truck is protected from shots coming from above only. Like from all the tall buildings of the city.
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Simultaneously one of my best and most frustrating spots:
On the way back from work, I was following a 993 Turbo and considered taking a photo but then aparthy struck. Turned right at a roundabout that the Porsche went straight on at, and was pottering along behind a Yaris. I could see a learner driver in a new Focus in front. However, I could hear a burble and glimpsed something red. Then I swore in suprise. Could it be?
Well, 🤬 me! It is!
Unfortunately, in my urgency to get a photo, I'd stalled the car on the roundabout, so I restarted and left it at that. I thought I might as well turn into the town a little later on, just to see if it had parked, and there it was coming towards me - elusive bugger...
I spun around as soon as I could, but by then it was long gone. Still, I got 1 alright picture, so I was happy with that.
Photos on a not-very-good camera phone. But better than none.
On the way back from work, I was following a 993 Turbo and considered taking a photo but then aparthy struck. Turned right at a roundabout that the Porsche went straight on at, and was pottering along behind a Yaris. I could see a learner driver in a new Focus in front. However, I could hear a burble and glimpsed something red. Then I swore in suprise. Could it be?
Well, 🤬 me! It is!
Unfortunately, in my urgency to get a photo, I'd stalled the car on the roundabout, so I restarted and left it at that. I thought I might as well turn into the town a little later on, just to see if it had parked, and there it was coming towards me - elusive bugger...
I spun around as soon as I could, but by then it was long gone. Still, I got 1 alright picture, so I was happy with that.
Photos on a not-very-good camera phone. But better than none.
None. The last two ('95-'98 and '99-'03) were also known as the Honda Saber but that was cancelled. Now the TL shares a few components with the Accord but not many. The thing about the TL is that because it is so popular, Honda-Acura decided they could sell it without a Honda twin. It's worked out thus far, too. That's what happens when you make a GOOD product rather than the trash of yore (2.5TL).
EDIT: wow, an F40 spot. daan what could the actual plate be? F45 TAO isn't registered according to the DVLA site. Seems like you'd have to be a complete idiot to run that car on fake plates since it's going to attract attention all day long. Great shots Roo - among the very best spots in the thread. I think it's only our second F40 after harrytuttle's.
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Thanks for the compliments, guys. It was very close to a very rich area, so fingers crossed I might run into it again.
Loving the Belgian Herbie
If it's FAST 40, it's illegal - you can't have more than 3 letters or numbers in one go. It doesn't take much to make a 7 look like a T, and as Famine posted, the DVLA site brings up an F40 for FAS740, so I doubt it's anything other than that.
Loving the Belgian Herbie
If it's FAST 40, it's illegal - you can't have more than 3 letters or numbers in one go. It doesn't take much to make a 7 look like a T, and as Famine posted, the DVLA site brings up an F40 for FAS740, so I doubt it's anything other than that.
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Emissions.
But the ST220 is a 3.0 V6 and the F40 is a 3.0 V8... The F40 probably has higher, if not MUCH higher, emissions
Thing is, the regulations surrounding road tax weren't amended for emissions data until 2002 - so pre-2002 cars pay the old, flat rate of road tax (currently £180 a year), but post-2002 cars are placed into one of 7 bands. The ST220 is in band G, the highest (over 225g/km of carbon dioxide) so owners pay £300 a year.
Rotaries are classed having twice the capacity by our rules (seeing as they're equivalent to piston engines with twice the capacity [and thrice the number of "cylinders"])
Though it's all bollocks.
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Try paying £300 for it...
"Funny" story - the Ariel Atom is officially a zero-emissions vehicle (despite being a petrol-powered Honda 2.0 iVTEC), but pays a seemingly arbitrary amount - not the low old rate, not the high old rate, not in any of the bands, nor zero - for car tax.
"Funny" story - the Ariel Atom is officially a zero-emissions vehicle (despite being a petrol-powered Honda 2.0 iVTEC), but pays a seemingly arbitrary amount - not the low old rate, not the high old rate, not in any of the bands, nor zero - for car tax.
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£15 for a 125cc bike is pretty good though..
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For the record 300 GBP is quite a bit less than what owners pay in some U.S. states; quite a bit more than in others. Surprising to hear that for once Europeans aren't taxed more than Americans.
It's just one of multiple things we require to get our cars legal for another year - but the taxation continues with the equivalent of $1.50 for every litre of fuel being tax alone...
I honestly don't know. It's like the car hasn't been tested, even though the engine appears in scores of other cars.
I use two sites. The RAC gives basic information (make, model) from just the plate. The DVLA (click "Vehicle Enquiry") gives engine size, colour, tax status, year of manufacture and registration (useful if the two are different - means it's an import) from the plate and model.
