Wot motor yer driving?

[bobspud]

so real work driving it is better to have a 1.6 NA rather than a 1 litre turbo.

Having driven Saabs for a long time I would say its the other way around. You could drive them quite sedately most of the time the Turbo didn't even need to Spool. My wife didn't even know that our T5 had a turbo in it. She was shocked when I used it the first time. then she caught on and started eating tyres like a kid eats smarties...

But as for size vs turbo I don't think it matters which engine is used if the driver still thinks the car is the fasted sports car on the planet. I have lost count of the number of total pricks I see on the road that belt around with a bomb strapped to their heads, while driving something small and normally french with tulipe brakes and even worse tyres.

[Intel]

Had to order new rear tyres for the AMG today.....£435 lighter.....

May have to tape over the "handling mode" button....

[LondonManc]

Anyone else see the Lexus LC outside CW tube station today? Looks very nice.

[Intel]

Anyone else see the Lexus LC outside CW tube station today? Looks very nice.

Now you're just winding me up.... Colour? Liking the Blue with white leather seats myself...

[LondonManc]

Now you're just winding me up.... Colour? Liking the Blue with white leather seats myself...

Yep, that very colour. Looked tasty - they've got it on the Lexus website now too. A hybrid flying machine.

[original PM]

Having driven Saabs for a long time I would say its the other way around. You could drive them quite sedately most of the time the Turbo didn't even need to Spool. My wife didn't even know that our T5 had a turbo in it. She was shocked when I used it the first time. then she caught on and started eating tyres like a kid eats smarties...

But as for size vs turbo I don't think it matters which engine is used if the driver still thinks the car is the fasted sports car on the planet. I have lost count of the number of total pricks I see on the road that belt around with a bomb strapped to their heads, while driving something small and normally french with tulipe brakes and even worse tyres.

It's the ones with the really small (1 litre) engines which are then turbo charged to make it look like they give good performance and good efficiency that are the biggest culprits - you can either have the good performance and poor efficiency or to get the efficiency they claim you need to literally take 20-30 seconds to hit 60 etc

Large engines with turbos are less of an issue as they still have enough displacement to give 'good' performance without having the turbo fully spooled all the time

[Intel]

Yep, that very colour. Looked tasty - they've got it on the Lexus website now too. A hybrid flying machine.

Still no pricing though. Looking forward to test driving one though and seeing how the new gearbox gets on. The one fitted to the RCF was slow and dim-witted when I test drove that. Calling for lower gears took forever. Hopefully the new 10 speed in the LC will sort that out. Not sure it'll be driveable with flappy paddles though, I struggle with 7 gears due to how quickly the damned thing hits the redline so 10 gears will likely render it auto only.

[DimPrawn]

Seems some people are deceived by marketing. So here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide about what car you're really driving


Audi = Skoda
Older Jag = Ford
Newer Jag, Range Rover = Tata Nano

HTH

Shows how little you know about cars really.

Skoda interior looks like it cost £5 to make.

[darmstadt]

Had to order new rear tyres for the AMG today.....£435 lighter.....

May have to tape over the "handling mode" button....

That's one of the problems with such cars, things like tyres are damn expensive and depending on how you drive can wear out quickly. I took my car in the garage a couple of weeks ago for 2 year inspection and they wouldn't let me take it away as 1 tyre was rather manky on the sidewall and 2 had either a nail or screw in. So 4 new tyres at €1600 then (and they had to order them)

[suityou01]

What we all driving these days?

Passat?
Bentley?

Me, I've got an Audi TTS, very popular with the ladies.

2003 Saab 9-3 SE Turbo Convertible.