edesignuk said:WD40 is the answer to everything though![]()
The only two kinds of maintenance I understand: Liquid and impact.
If WD40 doesn't fix it, hit it with something heavy...
edesignuk said:WD40 is the answer to everything though![]()
That was classic, the DB9 needed a hell of a good wash though, sooooo many dead bugs all over that beautiful cargarybUK said:I loved when Jeremy Clarkson drove the DB9 from London to Monaco and beat the TGV train![]()
edesignuk said:Glad to see they just gave the Mini the thumbs up (again!).
Savage Henry said:Mini ... Pah!! ... Mercilessly overrated pile of gubbins if you ask me .. (which nobody did .. but I said it anyway)
edesignuk said:![]()
Don't look at my .Mac gallery then!
edesignukthe engineering is pathetic said:BMW:
507 HP (373 kW) @ 7750 rpm
520 Nm (383 ft.-lb) torque @ 6100 rpm
Viper:
500 horsepower at 5,600 RPM
525 ft.-lb. of torque at 4,200 RPM
How in the world can you give someone a 5.2 liter V-10 and only get 383 ft.-lbs. of torque from it, at 73% of redline?!
How about better ways to spend $85k? Looks like Daimler Chrysler is doing the same thing as Apple with you guysedit: one more thing: then they want £80k for it, you must be ******** me, I can think of MUCH better ways to spend £80k on a car.![]()
evoluzione said:no ****??? do you know where/how??? i miss top gear and i've yet to find it on telly over here. maybe i should do a tivo search, never thought it would ever be on! top gear and match of the day, if i could get both of those i'd be the happiest guy alive, at least for a minute anyway.
all i'd need then is murray walker on the grand prix shows here.....
iGAV said:The new Disco is cool as... more so in the flesh. It's HUGE as well and looks like it's carved out of granite, and far more impressive looking than the Range Rover. Shame it weighs 2.7 tonnes.Totally over engineered, but nothing short of a military Hummer would see which way it went off road though!
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Savage Henry said:But it's a case of form ahead of function and I think BMW could have had a lot more to show from their R&D expenditure. It's just my very humble opinion, so bear it no consequence.
iGAV said:That's exactly how I've always felt about the new MINI (same goes for the new Beetle as well).
The original MINI was incredibly innovative for it's time, and this seems to have been completely lost on BMW, who have taken the aesthetic of the original, given it a straight forward f***over and proclaimed it the new MINI... completely missing eveything that made the original one of the most important cars ever built.
Personally I've always believed the Audi A2 to be a true spiritual sucessor to the original MINI, from it's innovative construction and engineering layout, to it's overall aesthetic, I can well imagine Issigonis giving it the thumbs up because it takes the spirit of the original MINI and places it within 21st century lifestyles, instead of being merely retro/modern pastiche of the originals.
And Tiff... it ain't a British car... MINI has never been British, it's always been German![]()
Counterfit said:How in the world can you give someone a 5.2 liter V-10 and only get 383 ft.-lbs. of torque from it, at 73% of redline?!
Savage Henry said:the fact that my wheels are an A2 ... and I love it to bits.
*cough* And where's the laziness? Using pushrods instead of overhead cams makes sense in a front engined car with an engine this longiGAV said:also knocks out 331lb ft of torque at 3500rpm though
either way... there's no excuse for the lazy arse engineering behind the engine in the Viper....![]()
The first gen petrol 1.4 nearly 3 years old and it is the sweetest thing that has ever graced the sole of my shoe.iGAV said:what engine???
CC exemption would be a big yay in my books and wouldn't think twice about driving the burbs of London with that model. In fact I'd say my next purchase would be a non-converted one (being country folk 'n alliGAV said:I was thinking either the 1.6 FSI (converted if poss to run on LPG so it's exempt from the Congestion Charge)
iGAV said:or maybe the 1.4 TDi (90PS) because of it's 230 NM of torque thwack!!![]()
what's you general thoughts on it??![]()
jeffy.dee-lux said:For those of you in the states lookin for a top gear fix,
www.sleepy-fish.com has a bunch of videos, although it seems to be down at this moment.
Counterfit said:And where's the laziness?
MacDawg said:My tastes are just too old fashioned, the muscle cars of the 60's, etc.
Z28
Super Sport
GTO
Roadrunner
Boss 302
I come from a different generation![]()
EGT said:I have a question for you all....
What car do you want to win the restoration thingy? I think that Chrysler on the last show should be restored but it'll be good to see whatever one is picked.
edesignuk said:
Swinny said:Their hatred of Chris Bangle is getting a little out of hand - OK, so the new BMWs aren't to everyone's liking, but its just getting a little silly that they seem to have to mention he's "ruined" them everytime a new BMW is shown. He's actually made BMW's interesting ferchrissakes! (Nothing to do with the fact that I'm biassed cos he penned my car over a decade ago when the thought of flame-modeling a BMW 7-series was but a distant dream in his mind!)