February 16, 2025

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The business lovers

‘Mindboggling’ red tape threatens classic car industry, owners warn

A village fete is seldom complete without the need of an array of vintage automobiles parked on the grass for motoring fans to admire. But now historic car or truck homeowners are warning the swap to electrification and the pink tape ensuing from Brexit threaten the survival of firms that retain these traditional vehicles on the street. 

The vintage car or truck sector has formed a new team, the Historic and Common Motor vehicles Alliance (HCVA), to secure an industry it says has an yearly turnover of £18.3bn and possibly employs or supports some 113,000 jobs, including engineers, restorers, craftsmen and pieces suppliers.

HCVA estimates there is a fleet of some one.54m historic vehicles, defined as individuals in excess of 30 years old, on United kingdom roads. There are a further one.47m traditional automobiles, which are aged 15 to 30 years old, bringing the overall benefit of these vehicles to £12.6bn.

Irrespective of their old-fashioned technological innovation, these automobiles are a lot less polluting than expected as they are pushed so seldom, masking an regular one,two hundred miles a yr over the average of 16 times they are pushed, a portion of the 7,000 miles most automobiles cover.