Fuel Misers

[Tin Pot]

Not the way the technologies going...

My existing car 2.0 Tdi - 140bhp
My [proposed] new car 1.6 petrol - 150bhp

Yeah, I’m including in my ban all hybrids and electrics too.

 

[Tin Pot]

Its neither of those.

“Too” means “as well.”

I’m hung over

 

[Drago]

Yep. 1.2L engines and below should be outlawed on dual carriageways and motorways.

I think my Ferrari crushing V-Max would be upset if that happened.

The slowest cars on sale can all do the national speed limit, most bettering it by 25MPH or more.

It should be Roger Ramjet drivers who get banned, not people driving sensibly and observing the law. After all, a 56 limit has reduced HGV/LGV accidents quite markedly.

In fact, I'd be all for a lower limit and having it enforced with an iron fist.

 

[smutchin]

i thought all cars could drive at 70?

When I was a student, my girlfriend at the time had a poky little Citroen AX that would seriously struggle to maintain 70 up any kind of gradient.

I did once get stopped for doing 90 in it though - going absolutely flat out downhill on the M62, I was so excited about the fact that I'd got it up to such extreme speeds, I just didn't care about the fact that there was a very conspicuous patrol car at the side of the road. The officer who stopped me was not at all impressed with my explanation for why I was going so fast. Probably just as well he did stop me though, before the car rattled itself to bits.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

After all, a 56 limit has reduced HGV/LGV accidents quite markedly.

I well remember the days of de-restricted National Express coaches (& the like) on the M-ways
I also remember when I used to have a Bedford Rascal van, & they'd pass me.........................
No!, that wasn't my caravan...
Bike carrier, & mobile changing room/cafe

 

[Drago]

I once got stopped at night for doing 30 in a 30 zone, and the bobbies thought that was suspicious. I pointed out that I was hardly likely to speed with a marked 3 litre Senator up my jacksy, was I?

 

[palinurus]

I well remember the days of in-restricted National Express coaches (& the like) on the M-ways

Faster'n a National Coach as we used to say.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I well remember the days of de-restricted National Express coaches (& the like) on the M-ways
I also remember when I used to have a Bedford Rascal van, & they'd pass me.........................
No!, that wasn't my caravan...
Bike carrier, & mobile changing room/cafe
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Almost what used to happen on roundabouts, when they were wet, with/without diesel spillage


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HCb63O4eF0

 

[Bonefish Blues]

When I was a student, my girlfriend at the time had a poky little Citroen AX that would seriously struggle to maintain 70 up any kind of gradient.

I did once get stopped for doing 90 in it though - going absolutely flat out downhill on the M62, I was so excited about the fact that I'd got it up to such extreme speeds, I just didn't care about the fact that there was a very conspicuous patrol car at the side of the road. The officer who stopped me was not at all impressed with my explanation for why I was going so fast. Probably just as well he did stop me though, before the car rattled itself to bits.

...or hit a wayward crisp packet and exploded into a thousand pieces!

 

[Dirk]

I once got stopped at night for doing 30 in a 30 zone, as the bobbies thought it was suspicious. I pointed out that I was hardly likely to speed with a marked 3 litre Senator uo my jacksy, was I?

Funnily enough, I had exactly the same experience on my 750 Norton.
Coming back from Solihull late one night, riding at the 30 speed limit, I got pulled, totally unnecessarily, by a marked Rover P5 that had been tailing me for about a mile. The copper was very sarcastic - "That's a very steady 30 mph you were doing there..... Sir" - so I gave him the same reply as you did.
There was nothing he could do as everything was in order, so I was on my way again.*



*I think he may have recognised me from the time I was chased out of Solihull. I lost them that time and they obviously didn't get my number.

 

[mustang1]

you are away the section from Hangar Lane up to Finchley has average speed cameras now (50mph) ?

Yes I did wonder where the normal cameras have gone. Luckily I'm a slow driver. Many years ago I heard this guy zoomed past a camera at 125mph and didn't realize a new camera was installed there. Allegedly he was slowing down from 150. Shrugs.

 

[mustang1]

yes ECO mode lowers the air con, and throttle response. auto stop/start is switched back on, if the driver had over ruled that in comfort mode. Sat Nav needs "eco mode" to be selected for it to find the route with least amount of traffic, but that can add many miles to a journey

Also reduces assistance to electric steering.

 

[Jody]

It's not about the size of the engine but the c̶o̶m̶p̶e̶t̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶ amount of boost you can ram into the engine before it goes pop

FTFY

 

[Profpointy]

Yep. 1.2L engines and below should be outlawed on dual carriageways and motorways.

My 1050 was quite easily doing 120mph on the autobahn, albeit being overtaken by vw polos and the like. Top speed is supposedly 160mph which I can quite believe. Sorry if that is holding you up too much

 

[Dirk]

My 1050 was quite easily doing 120mph on the autobahn, albeit being overtaken by vw polos and the like. Top speed is supposedly 160mph which I can quite believe. Sorry if that is holding you up too much

Triumph Triple?