Electric vehicles

Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Never mind leccy even newer cars have no character any more. Everything sounds the same (crap) and nearly everything has same gearbox there's very few cars have anything to make them stand out.
You need to try harder 😆..Alfa QF will make you wake up. Till it breaks down 😂
Raised my pulse slightly in the wet when I was given a lift in one...500 through the rears in the wet...
Heck of car. Golf R or clubsport still go like the clappers...but agree not the same as older stuff.
Drove a MK2 golf a bit back heck they feel clunky now...
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Never mind leccy even newer cars have no character any more. Everything sounds the same (crap) and nearly everything has same gearbox there's very few cars have anything to make them stand out.
Sounds...
Gave an Audi a run up the bypass in my Amarok.... then he put his foot down...SQ8 heck that was loud ...briefly..🐎🐎😂👍👋👋
 
GazCro

GazCro

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You need to try harder 😆..Alfa QF will make you wake up. Till it breaks down 😂
Raised my pulse slightly in the wet when I was given a lift in one...500 through the rears in the wet...
Heck of car. Golf R or clubsport still go like the clappers...but agree not the same as older stuff.
Drove a MK2 golf a bit back heck they feel clunky now...
Nearly everything vag is the same though and that's the problem there's so little difference between cars. Leccy will be even worse as every leccy car will have nigh on the same performance if the software allows it. It's the faults that one person has with a car that make it for someone else. You don't get that with newer cars like you did with older stuff.
And as for mapped in pops and bangs when you put it in sport mode...........ffs 🤦‍♂️ nowt worse.
 
Regy53

Regy53

I like cake
Never mind leccy even newer cars have no character any more. Everything sounds the same (crap) and nearly everything has same gearbox there's very few cars have anything to make them stand out.
this problem consumes supercars hugely, i am a follower of them and a owner and the new stuff is so fast, but so soulless
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Never mind leccy even newer cars have no character any more. Everything sounds the same (crap) and nearly everything has same gearbox there's very few cars have anything to make them stand out.
couldn't agree more with that ....... I want to replace our Golf, but have absolutely NO Idea WTF to buy ....... or even what to consider looking at :rolleyes::( .... buy anything too recent and it has so much lectrikery on board it's a grenade with the pin out :mad:
 
Furniss

Furniss

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this problem consumes supercars hugely, i am a follower of them and a owner and the new stuff is so fast, but so soulless
Same could be said about bikes .... lots are making very efficient fast bikes but very few are making something involving to ride.
 
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Monkeybusiness

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this problem consumes supercars hugely, i am a follower of them and a owner and the new stuff is so fast, but so soulless
There isn’t anything really around nowadays that is exciting and ridiculously aspirational IMO. Expensive and fast - yes! Copy/paste of everything else, with an obvious corporate family design - yes….
The Countach was such an incredibly attractive (and futuristic looking) car that everyone had posters of them on their bedroom wall when I was a kid - there’s nothing like that anymore. Nobody has done anything to ‘break the mold’ for at least 20 years, and that’s what supercars are supposed to do (outright speed is getting irrelevant as ‘normal’ cars are so fast nowadays, and soleless boring Tesla’s will dick on most performance cars anyway).
Neither the Ferrari F40 or McLaren F1 will be superseded as actual proper supercars as far as I’m concerned - they were and will always be the top of the tree and rules, political correctness and general wokeness will stop anything similar being created in the future sadly.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
The tax collected ain't been spent on the roads for a long time, do you never get out 🤣
Fossil burners will end up like smoking. They'll do that well off the taxes they won't want tax them off the road completely.
circa 12% last time i looked, which is why the country's roads and infrastructure are in such a ****ing mess .... don't need to drive far to see that ....... if the funds collected were all used as they are supposedly intended we would have a serious road network in good condition, instead of the rutted tracks most of them are
 
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Monkeybusiness

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circa 12% last time i looked, which is why the country's roads and infrastructure are in such a ****ing mess .... don't need to drive far to see that ....... if the funds collected were all used as they are supposedly intended we would have a serious road network in good condition, instead of the rutted tracks most of them are
Radio 4 said that the tax generated by road users (fuel, VED etc) comes to £35 billion a year.
That gives a real indication of how ridiculous the £37 billion test-and-trace spend was!!!
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Radio 4 said that the tax generated by road users (fuel, VED etc) comes to £35 billion a year.
That gives a real indication of how ridiculous the £37 billion test-and-trace spend was!!!
Going to be some spare welfare units and lighting towers about soon from the test and trace sites!
 
craig

craig

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Going to be some spare welfare units and lighting towers about soon from the test and trace sites!
It`s already happening, I delivered an ex covid testing cabin type thing. that had been converted into an outdoor mobile bar🍺, to comply with covid rules at the normal indoor bar:LOL:
 
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DaveDCB

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Nearly everything vag is the same though and that's the problem there's so little difference between cars. Leccy will be even worse as every leccy car will have nigh on the same performance if the software allows it. It's the faults that one person has with a car that make it for someone else. You don't get that with newer cars like you did with older stuff.
And as for mapped in pops and bangs when you put it in sport mode...........ffs 🤦‍♂️ nowt worse.
I got myself a mk3 focus Rs in 2017, what a pile of crap, I hated it! Yeah it was fast, launch control on it was immense, and upset most 100k+ cars, but it was just meh — didn’t feel fast!
Also Had a head gasket after 300 miles, glad I sold it and didn’t bother replacing it!
 
Grahams

Grahams

Don't complain - suggest what's better
I had a Caterham 7 back in the day. That felt fast, even at low speeds, sat a few inches off the road, no doors or roof, no insulation , big twin webbers sucking just infront of you and flames out of the exhaust as you changed down, those were the days. Wouldn’t bother now with the amount of traffic, cameras, average speed, etc.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I had a Caterham 7 back in the day. That felt fast, even at low speeds, sat a few inches off the road, no doors or roof, no insulation , big twin webbers sucking just infront of you and flames out of the exhaust as you changed down, those were the days. Wouldn’t bother now with the amount of traffic, cameras, average speed, etc.
's why I swapped the XRs / Vitesses for RRs :(:cry: ...... have had a clean license my entire driving career ......as the old man said "cameras just ain't cricket" :rolleyes:
 
TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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's why I swapped the XRs / Vitesses for RRs :(:cry: ...... have had a clean license my entire driving career ......as the old man said "cameras just ain't cricket" :rolleyes:
I know the pain…..normally happy plodding around in my old D1 which has never been caught speeding anywhere!! Nipped out in the wife’s BMW during the week and a letter from the camera man dropped through the letterbox yesterday!!
 
pettsy

pettsy

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Had a few fast cars, this was the best but capable of license-losing speed while feeling so controlled. Got a caterham/Westfield itch to scratch one day!

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craig

craig

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electric vans have had weight limit raised to 4.25 tons
Yes, but with a load off restrictions on using them, It was discussed on here a while back. Limited use radius, or tacho, extra training, no trailer without O licence etc.
 
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