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Re: Prace bets now..... -
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12, 13 maybe. Jesus... I've never got anything down that low. |
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JackH <jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote: 12, 13 maybe. Jesus... I've never got anything down that low. Not even trying. I got the XJR down to 3mpg. |
That's horrendous, even if you're loaded and can afford to wipe your arse
with £50 notes.
Humm, what's the damage when you're driving relatively sedately???
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JackH
98 Yamaha Fazer FZS600
03 VW Passat TDI Sport (Resting)
00 VW Golf 1.9 TDI SE Estate
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Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: JackH <jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Having owned several Rovers / Hondas with lumps that like to have the tits revved off them, I can confirm it never gets tedious, Really? I had a 1.8 V~TEC Civic as a loaner while the garage replaced the coil pack and leads on the Exploder. The Civic got tedious after 60 miles. It's not the fact that it can be revved to 8k that gets tedious it's the fact that it has to be revved to 8k to make any progress. I'd imagine that, with the Lexus being Japanese and all that, it has all the character of a sewing maching, despite a silly redline. |
416 shape thing and has a powerflow exhaust on it. Even though it's got
absolutely fuck all torque it is quite good fun to drive, and the engine
is bloody smooth. It's about 200 metric fuckloads lighter than an IS200
though, it's so full of rot it probably weighs about 750 kg...
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Pete M - OMF#9
BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Renault 30 TX Auto
"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"
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| "Mike P" <privacy (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote in message news:6s7gn1F4k2rfU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... I had a MK1 Civic Type-R as a company car for about 8 months back in 2003. It was fun for about a month, driving it like a tit , redlining it everywhere and it sounded great. Then it began to get quite tedious, because you couldn't make decent progress in it if you weren't caning it. I managed to foist it off on someone else and spent the rest of the time there driving a Golf GTDiesel. It was so much better for everyday driving. I can't stand it any more! I'd much rather be daily-driving an E63AMG even though it needs 7000 rpm on the clock to feel fast, or an M5, or an M3. We drive diesels because we're all too skint / tight to pay for big fuel bills. They are in no way any better to drive. *BINGO*. |
Normally I have to say that.
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Pete M - OMF#9
BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Renault 30 TX Auto
"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"
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Tim S Kemp wrote: "JackH" <jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:6s7pfaF4b1kbU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... They went rather well for a 1300, and were infinitely better reliability wise than the Rover S-Series engined 216 models. The main issue with either was rot. Yeah, kwik fit jacked straight through mine... LOL... I did that once to an Austin Maxi I owned for all of about three weeks, at which point it did me a favour and threw a rod. And the KV6... well.... Remind us all again how low you used to get the MPG down to on that. ;-) 12, 13 maybe. Jesus... I've never got anything down that low. Think the worst I've had was an XR4x4 2.9i, which I got down to 15mpg by caning it mercilessly round some twisties. Heh, I used to get more than that out of my twin turbo 2.9 4x4. |
I don't manage anything near that good in the Rangie.
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Pete M - OMF#9
BMW 325i SE Touring
Range Rover V8 Turbo
Renault 30 TX Auto
"Wait! We can't stop here, this is Bat Country"
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On Jan 2, 9:23 pm, st... (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk (SteveH) wrote: DanB <iridium... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote: That has more than 160bhp, though and something we'd recognise as torque.... To be fair, that's not unlike your 156 - only it's RWD, so an awesome real mans car or something. :-) Slower than my 156.... even though I have a Sillyspeed box ;-) Hmm, speed is relative... |
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I'd take a longitudinal I6 over a transverse I4 any day... |
IIRC.
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and my thoughts are not with the Alfa in terms of avoiding things that cost eleventy-million pounds to fix. |
need money thrown at it.
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This Carl fixation you have looks unhealthy, man. |
car given the financial circumstances of the OP, and what it's going to be
used for.
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JackH
98 Yamaha Fazer FZS600
03 VW Passat TDI Sport (Resting)
00 VW Golf 1.9 TDI SE Estate
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Driving everywhere at 8k rpm becomes tedious? ;-) It's an age thing. It's well know that your acceptable rev limit for a car is inversely proportionate to your age. I look forward to the day that 2,000rpm becomes unnacceptably high. Look forward just as much to 11,000rpm out of the engine in the Sylva as well right enough... |
Used to like NA Diesels, then got a Clarton, learned to love >4000rpm
and then drove my BX GTi like I stole it _everywhere_. A day the MX-5
doesn't hit the hard 7250rpm limiter is a day wasted and my work now
sees me dealing with engines which rev into the tens of thousands.
Love it.
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Douglas
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SteveH wrote: Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: JackH <jackhackettuk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Having owned several Rovers / Hondas with lumps that like to have the tits revved off them, I can confirm it never gets tedious, Really? I had a 1.8 V~TEC Civic as a loaner while the garage replaced the coil pack and leads on the Exploder. The Civic got tedious after 60 miles. It's not the fact that it can be revved to 8k that gets tedious it's the fact that it has to be revved to 8k to make any progress. I'd imagine that, with the Lexus being Japanese and all that, it has all the character of a sewing maching, despite a silly redline. A girl I know has an old Civic VTEC something or other, it's the Rover 416 shape thing... |
If the former, it'll be a B16, the latter, almost certainly a B18.
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JackH
98 Yamaha Fazer FZS600
03 VW Passat TDI Sport (Resting)
00 VW Golf 1.9 TDI SE Estate
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JackH wrote: Tim S Kemp wrote: And the KV6... well.... Remind us all again how low you used to get the MPG down to on that. ;-) 12, 13 maybe. Jesus... I've never got anything down that low. Think the worst I've had was an XR4x4 2.9i, which I got down to 15mpg by caning it mercilessly round some twisties. Heh, I used to get more than that out of my twin turbo 2.9 4x4. |
I've tailed a twin turbo one before, or should I say, I tried to tail a twin
turbo one before - it was bloody rapid and pissed off into the distance at
great speed.
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I don't manage anything near that good in the Rangie. |
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JackH
98 Yamaha Fazer FZS600
03 VW Passat TDI Sport (Resting)
00 VW Golf 1.9 TDI SE Estate
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Douglas Payne <doug... (AT) cheerful (DOT) com> wrote: On Jan 2, 9:23 pm, st... (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk (SteveH) wrote: DanB <iridium... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote: That has more than 160bhp, though and something we'd recognise as torque.... To be fair, that's not unlike your 156 - only it's RWD, so an awesome real mans car or something. :-) Slower than my 156.... even though I have a Sillyspeed box ;-) Hmm, speed is relative, I'd take a longitudinal I6 over a transverse I4 any day and my thoughts are not with the Alfa in terms of avoiding things that cost eleventy-million pounds to fix. This Carl fixation you have looks unhealthy, man. I'm off to start a new thread: 'Cars that SteveH chooses are shit' Heh. The whole saga went on almost as long as my company car saga.... |
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With lots of sensible ideas put forward. Then one of the least sensible choices possible was made. |
made all sorts of justifications for it which made it look like the
only choice.
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I think that's one thing most of us agree on. We even have the unlikely alignment of me, Jack H and seemingly Pete M all agreeing on this one ;-) |
brother of Dervy.
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