[Archive] Arriva North West - Speke Depot

[mathias]

RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot

(14/05/2013 15:50)motormayhem Wrote:  The problem with the speed is in london they had to play around with the fuel pump to reduce emmisions due to emmission limits there and the most emmissions come when pulling away so thats the reason they pull away slowly but are not in the posistion to adapt them to increase the speed due to them coming up to retirement age.

Interesting point that, MM.
I notice that these DB250s fit into the Tax Class 38 (reduced emissions) bracket, meaning that their Road Tax comes in at £165 a year, rather than the usual decker tax of £500 a year (TC34 category).

So they might be crap to drive, but at least the road tax is cheap!