No, not tractorbility, tractability.

Ye olde golf excels at being happy in a high gear.
I'm not saying that a big block v8 has anything to worry about, but it'll
happily pull from 6-700rpm in 5th gear.

I feel that the older I get, the lower I want to rev the engine. I must do
an equation some time to demonstrate this.

Anyway, these days I find myself changing up at anything between 1200 and
1800rpm.

I'm also to be found crusing along the M73 behind a truck at an indicated
57mph whilst all of the good people .

Should I see a doctor ?

P.S. I do still give it a bit of WOT all the way around to the red line
every day.

In article <hdf3qi$1hg$1 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org>, Bob Sherunckle
says...



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Conor
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I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

"Conor" <conor (AT) gmx (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Diesel's don't pull until at least 2000rpm.

That's the upper slopes for me these days...

:-)

Bob Sherunckle wrote:
Its time for a V8. I think you should V8 an MX-5. I'd love to have a
shot in one.

My MX-5 labours badly at anything under about 2000rpms. Or maybe I just
tell myself that it does.

....all of the good people...?

I've found that driving sensibly in the MX-5 nets me a maximum extra
3mpg ofver driving how I like and 6mpg over driving like a complete
idiot. I have come to the conclusion that the slowness it isn't worth
the opportunity cost of driving a car I bought to enjoy.

The Peugeot is more noticeable in its MPG variability. The difference
is more like 28mpg if being silly (also denoted by sizzling brakes),
38mpg for just making mechanically unsympathetic progress and 45mpg+ if
driven with a modicum of sensibleness.

My 1.1 106 is not a car blessed with much in the way of torques but it
is reasonably tractable, 3000rpm at 70mph may have something to do with
that.

I live a long way from a motorway, and I generally get to WOT/Redline
past any trucks on my commute.

I fnd that it is much less stressful with the trucks on a busy
motorway/dualler.

(c: Good lad.

Sounds like you are missing a turdodiesel in your life though.

--
Douglas

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Conor
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I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

"Conor" <conor (AT) gmx (DOT) co.uk> wrote

And revved to ?.....

In article <hdf9gd$njo$1 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org>, Bob Sherunckle
says...
It'd go to 2500 but you'd want to be changing gear by 2000 so it fits
the bill perfectly. Should also get 15-20MPG out of it as well if you're
running tractor unit only.

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I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

"Conor" <conor (AT) gmx (DOT) co.uk> wrote

And that's still a high-speed diesel :-)

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:37:29 -0000, "Bob Sherunckle"
<zilspeed (AT) beeteeopenworld (DOT) com> wrote:

The wonder of modern fuel injection and ignition allow silly engine
speeds. I'm sure if you read your owners manual you will find warnings
about "lugging". Yes it's smooth but it's still "lugging".

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